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A. Phillip Randolph speaks

What Running on a Jobs Guarantee Could Mean for Democrats What Running on a Jobs Guarantee Could Mean for Democrats

Candidates hoping to win in 2024 should look to A. Philip Randolph, who knew an economy stuffed with good jobs would gain a political advantage.

Jun 15, 2023 / Katie Rader and Carissa Guadron

Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Cringe Eat, Pray, Cringe

Elizabeth Gilbert’s next novel faced outcry for its setting in Russia. So, before she could get canceled, she canceled herself.

Jun 14, 2023 / Katha Pollitt

Homes in the Zero Down subdivision on Guam are reduced to piles of tin and wood debris leaving them unrecognizable in the wake of Typhoon Mawar.

Hope Is a Ghost Island: Guam After Typhoon Mawar Hope Is a Ghost Island: Guam After Typhoon Mawar

Three weeks ago, Mawar tore through the island of Guam, but her people are not waiting to be saved.

Jun 14, 2023 / Julian Aguon

Currency: Women on Coins

Currency: Women on Coins Currency: Women on Coins

The American Women Quarters Program features pioneering women, including: Maya Angelou (writer/activist), Bessie Coleman (the first African American and first Native American woma...

Jun 14, 2023 / OppArt / Denise Deleray

Fordism Comes to the Gallery—and AI Comes for the Artists

Fordism Comes to the Gallery—and AI Comes for the Artists Fordism Comes to the Gallery—and AI Comes for the Artists

Though hyped in the media as the latest thing, the images generated by AI art are actually old, trapping the viewer in a time loop of kitsch.

Jun 14, 2023 / Dwayne Monroe

China's Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu salutes the audience before delivering a speech during the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on June 4, 2023.

The US Versus China The US Versus China

Continued failures to resolve fundamental differences over Taiwan could lead to war.

Jun 14, 2023 / Michael T. Klare

A sign supporting the return of military troops from wars abroad is displayed in front of the White House in 2018.

War Causes Pain at Home, Not Just Abroad War Causes Pain at Home, Not Just Abroad

In the US, so many of us do feel the painful results of our disastrous distant wars of this century, whether we know it or not. 

Jun 14, 2023 / Andrea Mazzarino

A scene from “Unrest”

The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist

Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest may be the most orderly movie about anarchists ever made.

Jun 14, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman

Donald Trump waving while getting into a car.

Arraigned in Miami, Trump Is in Real Trouble Arraigned in Miami, Trump Is in Real Trouble

If convicted on any of these charges, Trump will almost certainly go to prison, perhaps for the rest of his life.

Jun 13, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Lindsey Graham Senate Chamber

Lindsey Graham Is No Reasonable Republican Lindsey Graham Is No Reasonable Republican

The South Carolina senator has squandered what remained of his flimsy reputation as a moderate with his fealty to Donald Trump—even as the former president faces federal charges.

Jun 13, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

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