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What Do We Want From Bob Dylan’s Story?

What Do We Want From Bob Dylan’s Story? What Do We Want From Bob Dylan’s Story?

In James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown, we get a cautious and reverent story of a musician who has always sought to transcend the limits imposed upon him.

Jan 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sam Adler-Bell

Donald Trump Jr. looks on after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 7, 2025.

Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism

Trump’s obsession with claiming Greenland and its people for the US is just a new version of the same old imperialist story.

Jan 9, 2025 / John Nichols

Theodor Adorno giving a lecture at the Goethe-Institut in Rome, 1969.

What Adorno Can Still Teach Us What Adorno Can Still Teach Us

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness.

Jan 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

President-elect Donald Trump at a podium.

The Trump Sanewashing Begins Anew The Trump Sanewashing Begins Anew

New year, same media strategy: Downplay Trump’s most dangerous, extreme ideas as “trolling” or even “branding.”

Jan 8, 2025 / Joan Walsh

Founder of the far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen points his finger as he poses during a photo session at his home in Saint-Cloud on January 14, 2021.

The Toxic Legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Toxic Legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen

The elder Le Pen is dead, but far-right populists across the world still echo his mix of violent rhetoric, brazen lies, and outreach to mainstream conservatives.

Jan 8, 2025 / Obituary / David A. Bell

The Seeds of Fascism Sown Around the World

The Seeds of Fascism Sown Around the World The Seeds of Fascism Sown Around the World

From Germany, to Argentina to the US, authoritarianism grows.

Jan 8, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Members of the Syrian community hold flags of Syria and Germany as they rally on December 8, 2024, in Berlin.

The Syrian Diaspora in Germany After Assad The Syrian Diaspora in Germany After Assad

Some refugees may return to Syria because they want to live there again. But many won’t—for the same reasons many refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe didn’t after World War II.

Jan 8, 2025 / Linda Mannheim

A postcard depicting Vienna in the future, 1905.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Exhibitions of Absurdity Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s Exhibitions of Absurdity

In Gretel and the Great War, an antic epistolary novel set in early 20th-century Austria, the writer tries to make sense of a society gone mad.

Jan 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Walker Rutter-Bowman

Carter ’76

Carter ’76 Carter ’76

Full page and centerpiece.

Jan 7, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks about Ralph De La Torre's spending habits during the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Left-Populists—Unshackle Your Imaginations! Left-Populists—Unshackle Your Imaginations!

It’s time to challenge the Democrats’ “business model.”

Jan 7, 2025 / Richard Eskow

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