Culture

The author’s mother, 1927.

Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life

In Ordinary Notes, Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.”

Dec 13, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Omari Weekes

How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business

How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business

Once upon a time, six companies controlled the media in this country. That, it turns out, was the good old days…

Dec 13, 2023 / Feature / Thomas Schatz

Goodbye, bad corporate thing that you don’t run, Hello, good indie thing that you DO run. (Details of thing TBD.)

The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own Media Company The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own Media Company

How to throw off the corporate shackles and launch an independent news outlet.

Dec 13, 2023 / Feature / Kelsey McKinney and Aleksander Chan

Indigenous Wisdom

Indigenous Wisdom Indigenous Wisdom

Indigenous Peoples around the world are safeguarding the biodiversity that sustains all life on earth.

Dec 12, 2023 / OppArt / Juan Henry Mendez Chavajay

The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement

The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement

Culture / Books & the Arts / December 12, 2023 More Than a Natural Function The politics of birth. The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement Though it res…

Dec 12, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Moira Donegan

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger make a statement in the State Department briefing room after receiving the Nobel Peace prize.

The Death of Henry Kissinger The Death of Henry Kissinger

Dec 12, 2023 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead

The new biopic about the socialist organizer stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

Dec 12, 2023 / Column / Adolph Reed Jr.

A statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse

Socialism and Disney Are Incompatible Socialism and Disney Are Incompatible

Our species can’t afford another century of the principles fostered by the Disney emporium.

Dec 11, 2023 / Ariel Dorfman

Reimagining “The Nation” in Print

Reimagining “The Nation” in Print Reimagining “The Nation” in Print

Each new monthly issue will be much longer—with more room for hard-hitting investigative pieces and reporting that challenges corporate power and conventional wisdom.

Dec 11, 2023 / D.D. Guttenplan

How Did Marxism Become Marxism?

How Did Marxism Become Marxism? How Did Marxism Become Marxism?

A new book examines a set of thinkers and activists who helped transform a set of radical ideas into a political tradition.

Dec 11, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon

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