CULTURE
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Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests
“The new wine has burst the old bottles,” the playwright August Strindberg wrote, in a bullish preface to his 1888…
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“Last Exit,” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
“Yesterday bleeds in the rearview mirror / As tomorrow’s fires fan out everywhere.” Source link
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The Real Audience for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Spectacles
Last May, the United Kingdom’s Home Office posted footage that showed immigration officers going door to door and marching migrants…
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How an Election Denier Became the U.S. Treasurer
In Georgia, during the early days of the pandemic, a bald and baggy-eyed Republican state senator named Brandon Beach showed…
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Can Head Start Survive the MAGA Era?
In early April, Head Start child-care centers began receiving an e-mail from the address defendthespend@hhs.gov. The message explained that, before…
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How Russia and Ukraine Are Playing Trump’s Blame Game
On May 9th, Vladimir Putin will oversee a parade in Moscow’s Red Square, commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory in the…
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Michael Schulman on Lillian Ross’s “The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue”
Lord knows what the gaggle of tenth graders chewing French fries and puffing Marlboro Lights made of the small septuagenarian…
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This Bouquet of Branches Will Change Everything
This morning, I was a depressed, frumpy loser. But then, in a moment, everything changed. You see, I just purchased…
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A Lawyer Freed Young Thug. Now He’s Defending Diddy
On the afternoon of May 9, 2022, Atlanta police surrounded a mansion owned by Jeffery Williams, the rapper better known…
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Rema and the Evolution of the Afrobeats Sound
For many years, the term Afrobeats, referring to a West African pop style that integrates dancehall, rap, and R. &…
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