Culture
2,054 Days of Solitary Confinement
A punishment that's cruel, but not unusual
Five Mualimm-Ak
Scattering Karl’s Ashes
Learning to accept the inevitable
Jane Miller
The Lessons of Zapatista Women Activists for Today’s Social Movements
The role of indigenous women in the Zapatista movement is little known.
James Tracy
Forget Techno-Optimism: We Can’t Innovate Our Way Out of Inequality
Hillary Clinton's former 'senior advisor for innovation' sees our Uber-ized future through rose-colored glasses
Chris Lehmann
Tech Could Mean the End of Capitalism. But What Comes Next?
Paul Mason, ardent critic of neoliberalism, sees a new epoch ahead
Peter C. Grosvenor
Watching Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Is Three Hours of Self-Punishment and I Loved It
Tarantino gives us a hangman-based civilization, with specious “law and order” talk doing nothing to obscure the essential cruelty of his characters’ actions.
Eileen Jones
A New Documentary Explores the Anti-Apartheid Activists in South Africa You Never Learned About
A new film project explores a long-forgotten chapter in the global struggle against apartheid.
Peter Cole
You Probably Haven’t Seen the Ten Best Films of 2015
They're obscure, they're poorly distributed—but you can track them down. It will be worth it.
Michael Atkinson
Without Explosives or Lightsabers, ‘Sisters’ is a Quiet-er but No Less Feminist Film
In co-opting the party narrative for a feminist audience, Sisters does for comedies what the new Star Wars has done for action movies.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Why Philanthropy Actually Hurts Rather Than Helps Some of the World’s Worst Problems
"Philanthrocapitalists" can't resolve the problems created by capitalism.
George Joseph
Austerity Is Stranger Than Fiction
Filmed in Portugal in 2013 and 2014, Miguel Gomes' new documentary Arabian Nights tries to make sense of life under IMF rules.
Michael Atkinson
Europe, A Love Story: Michael Moore’s Latest Film Tries To Sell Social Democracy to America
In 'Where To Invade Next,' Moore marches around Europe with a flag on his shoulder, to dubious effect.
Jeremy Gantz
The Blacklist in ‘Trumbo’ Didn’t Just Restrict Free Speech. It Changed How We Talk About Freedom.
Trumbo misses the opportunity to tell a more faithful, radical narrative of cinema's Red Scare and its resistors.
Andrew Paul
The Limits of Liberal Niceness in Aziz Ansari’s Master of None
Ansari and his character, Dev, genuinely want to do good. But they're missing the political framework.
Bhaskar Sunkara
The Wrong Kind of Solidarity: The UK’s Decision to Join the Air Strikes on Syria
Why bombing Syria in an attempt to weaken ISIS is not the answer to the Paris attacks.
Jane Miller
The Great Academic Novel
At the ripe age of 50, John Williams' "Stoner" is getting the attention it deserves
Joanna Scutts
The Barriers to Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe
The contrasts between the lives of Europeans and the lives of refugees
Jane Miller
Trapped in the Prison of Right-Wing Pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s Paranoid Mind
A stint in the slammer convinced the conservative author that liberals are crooks, as he lays out in his new book Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party.
Chris Lehmann
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