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Peter Schjeldahl, 2008

Schjeldahl’s Art Schjeldahl’s Art

At a time when art criticism was becoming more and more scholastic in tone, Peter Schjeldahl proudly upheld the banner of belletristic criticism.

Oct 26, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Bad Gays cover, with authors

Learning From the “Bad Gays” of History Learning From the “Bad Gays” of History

A conversation with Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller about queer crooks, villains, and anti-heros, and what we might learn from the sinister side of gay politics.

Oct 26, 2022 / Q&A / Max Fox

US Special Forces in Africa

What’s the US Military Doing in Africa? What’s the US Military Doing in Africa?

If it were up to the Pentagon, we’d never find out.

Oct 26, 2022 / Nick Turse

Mike Davis.

Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022

A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.

Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener

Indiana University professor Ross Gay

Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy” Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy”

A conversation with the poet Ross Gay about Inciting Joy, an exploration of joy as a critical emotion that “gets us to love, as a practice of survival."

Oct 25, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

(Q)ari Lake

(Q)ari Lake (Q)ari Lake

Trashing Arizona.

Oct 25, 2022 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter

21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter 21,000 Supporters Urge Alvin Bragg to Free Tracy McCarter

The Manhattan district attorney is prosecuting McCarter in the death of her estranged husband.

Oct 25, 2022 / Victoria Law

Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly.

Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly. Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly.

The Biden administration’s victories aren’t boosting Democrats’ chances next month.

Oct 25, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Photo of the crowd at a Trump rally in Texas

Do We Really Have to Care About Miserable White People? Do We Really Have to Care About Miserable White People?

Sadly, yes, because they wield disproportionate political power.

Oct 25, 2022 / Joan Walsh

A journalist using binoculars during an event to understand the impact of climate change on biodiversity in Kenya's Lake Nakuru National Park

Journalism Turns a Corner on Climate Change Journalism Turns a Corner on Climate Change

Watch the Covering Climate Now TV special Burning Questions tonight on public television’s WORLD channel.

Oct 25, 2022 / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

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