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In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a classic 1943 film that traces, in vaguely allegorical fashion, half a century’s evolution in Engla...

This month marked the thirtieth anniversary of Massive Attack’s “Unfinished Sympathy,” not that anyone was keeping track. The song remains,...

The astronomical event referenced in the title of Shirley Hazzard’s novel The Transit of Venus occurs in two installments–eight years apart,...

To the extent that there is a real national debate about the participation of trans people in sports, it is almost exclusively concerned wit...

Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana, have been poisoned for decades. The federal government built the pub...

If you weren’t around for it, it’s a little hard to explain how and why Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing broadcaster who died this week, was (v...

On Wednesday evening, as millions of Texans were without power during a historic and catastrophic cold spell, the state’s junior senator was...

The Supreme Court’s docket is lighter than usual this term, though it’s hard to blame the justices for it. After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death...

Facebook and Australia are at war. Though the country’s Parliament has yet to pass a proposed law that would require tech giants to pay for...

As most of my readers know, I was a card-carrying conservative for many years. I was working in the Reagan White House when Rush Limbaugh we...

In December 2019, reeling from the growing fallout of two crashes that killed 346 people, Boeing fired its CEO, Dennis Muilenburg. While he...

Massachusetts’s road to failure runs straight through the digital waiting room of the Democratic State Committee’s video calls. During long,...

Twenty-five years ago, Rush Limbaugh graced the cover of Time magazine. Wearing a striped shirt, an expensive suit, and a look of total cont...

The youth vote is one of the biggest what-ifs in American politics. The crucial 18-to-29 bracket typically doesn’t participate at levels com...

The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a national embarrassment. A doctor in Houston was fired for using ten doses of vaccine tha...

One little-examined legacy of the broader intellectual embrace of race-reductive thinking is something we might call the Quest for Moses(es)...

Not long ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was amiably shrugging off speculation that he was the leading candidate for the Democratic Part...

What is writing about sickness for? Inthe 1990s, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, a professor of humanities at Penn State,undertook a study of what...

What’s it like to be wrong? We have no idea. On Episode 25 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene discuss being r...

A transcript of Episode 25 of The Politics of Everything, “Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Us” WalterShapiro: Stage one isanonymity: You wa...

Donald Trump has once again wriggled his way out of his latest jam. Fifty-seven senators voted on Saturday to find the former president guil...

At least two million people were left without power in Texas as temperatures plummeted and snow piled up on Monday. Wholesale power prices c...

At the beginning of 2020, Maj. Gen. Jim Hoyer was ready to retire. He was turning 60, the usual age limit for leading the National Guard in...

When Ruben Verastigui, a digital strategist who had worked for the Republican National Committee creating social media ads to promote Donald...

Drive east from Reno, Nevada, on Interstate 80 and you’ll soon hit Storey County, a sparsely populated district of around 4,000 people that...