CULTURE

The Liberated Life of Colman Domingo

The last time I talked to Colman Domingo, in 2021, his life was completely different. At fifty-one, he was a…

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Who and What Should Be Nominated for the 2025 Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that, because of the devastating wildfires raging in and…

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Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

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What Could Citizens’ Assemblies Do for American Politics?

Last July, an unusual letter arrived at Kathryn Kundmueller’s mobile home, in central Oregon. It invited her to enter a…

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Refinding James Baldwin | The New Yorker

The text that weighed on him at the time of his arrival to Turkey was his novel “Another Country,” then…

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As if Times Weren’t Unsettling Enough, Saturn Is Losing Its Rings

If anything seemed solid in a melting and mutable world, surely it was the great big outer planets of the…

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The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances

For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even…

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