Culture

Meet the Artists Confronting Trump’s Culture Cuts

As federal support for the arts disappears, these creatives are turning identity and protest into their medium.

Xintian Tina Wang

Photography in Protest

Redeat Wondemu’s 10-year Modern Muse project honors the resilience of Ethiopian women across continents.

Amelia Parenteau

Queer Folks Mobilize for Palestine

Queer organizers rallied against drag bans and continue to do the same for Palestine

Henry Hicks IV

The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile

Released on the 50th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War and the 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this heartfelt book weaves humor and love into a wartime coming-of-age story.

Eleanor J. Bader

"I feared the door. Someone coming to take my parents away."

Poetry in <i>We Contain Landscapes</i> spotlights a child of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants.

Patrycja Humienik

These Black Bookstores Are Committed to the Fight for Freedom

Featuring a new foreword by the late Nikki Giovanni and interviews with Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Noname, Prose to the People spotlights the unyielding resilience of Black bookstores.

Katie Mitchell

Chicago Embraces The Pillowman

With this year marking the 10th anniversary of Chicago’s Reparations Ordinance, longtime friends bring a cautionary tale to the stage.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

From Ruins to Renaissance: Syrian Artists Reclaim Freedom After Assad

Following more than five decades of repression under the Assad regime, these artists are seizing the moment of cultural revival.

Alessandra Bajec

Kaveh Akbar's Narratives of Love

An exclusive conversation with the bestselling author of Martyr! on the moral crises we're facing.

Aina Marzia

A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

With urgency and wit, this political art remains a bastion for Palestinian liberation and as pertinent as ever.

In These Times Editors

Sheriffs Already Have Too Much Power. Who Will Stop Them Now?

Trump hosted more White House meetings with sheriffs than any other president in U.S. history. <i>The Highest Law in the Land</i> uncovers the overlooked horrors they commit.

Raina Lipsitz

Poetry as a Unifying Weapon

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

Julia Wright

In Our Fight for Sexual Liberation, We Must Not Forget About Sex Workers

Meet the traveling queer porn festival that promotes LGBTQ rights and safer practices for sex workers.

Malachi Lily

The Light That Lingers: Celebrating Over 30 Years of Black Filmmaking

At the Black Harvest Film Festival, storytelling becomes a terrain of resilience.

jada-amina

Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back

It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.

Eve L. Ewing

Nostalgia and Nationalism: Breaking Down Marvel's Shortcomings

Even the Defense Department has its grip on America's largest franchise.

Aina Marzia

Detty December Brings Euphoria and Hope for Ghana’s Future

President John Mahama’s re-election gave some Ghanaians "cautious optimism" during the festival season.

Ernest Ankomah and Emmanuel Kwame Sarpong

The Artist and the Ukrainian Front

Zhanna Kadyrova ponders the role of art in war—and finds new meaning in bullet-pierced walls.

Matt A. Hanson