Culture

What Does Collectivist Art Look Like?

In 2022, collectives from the Global South took over the world’s most prestigious art show, and the backlash was swift.

Panthea Lee (李佩珊)

When Cops Tell You Who They Are, Listen

A cartoonist illustrates police union leaders’ statements, in their own words.

Johnny Damm

Golden on Learning How to Live as a Black, Queer and Trans Artist from the South

“There’s so much politicizing of trans lives and at the heart of it, I just want to wear my dress.”

Sherell Barbee

Halloween and the Horrors of Capitalism

When have you ever seen a poor vampire?

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

In The Face of Lifelong Terror, Gaza Speaks Truth To Power

A Palestinian asked how many deaths will be enough. He was recently killed.

Refaat Alareer

An Iranian Artist in Exile Turns Her Camera to the West

Shirin Neshat explores how the government invades our dreams.

Matt A. Hanson

Frustrated With #GirlBoss Feminism? Look to Eastern European History

In Red Valkyries Kristen Ghodsee interrogates the false promise of liberal feminism.

Brianna Di Monda

HBO's DMZ Fails to Invent a Truly Revolutionary Society

The miniseries stars Rosario Dawson in a depoliticized dystopia

Devyn Springer

Chris Hayes on the Cost of Sanctions on Iraq

Sixteen years ago, Chris Hayes weighed the impact sanctions had on the lives of Iraqis. What lessons can we glean from this today?

Christopher Hayes

A New Podcast Opens Portals Into Queer History

"Unboxing Queer History" straddles space and time to explore LGBTQ narratives—from lesbian smelt fishing to gay liberation.

Isabel Carter

How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family

And why it took my father 40 years to see the ocean

Lauren Celenza

“Don’t Work” and Other Lessons From the Marxist Feminism of Meridel Le Sueur

The radical fiction of this Depression-era writer is painfully relevant to the present.

Benjamin Balthaser

In Praise of The Whole World Is Watching

We remember the life and accomplishments of the late activist, writer and scholar Todd Gitlin (1943-2022).

Susan J. Douglas

Sex and the City's Soft White Supremacy

The new non-white BFFs just serve as accessories (to the white women at the center of the show)

Yasmin Nair

The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever

How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.

Yasmin Nair

David Graeber Is Gone, But He's Still Changing How We See History

In <i>The Dawn of Everything</i>, David Graeber delivers parting wisdom.

Jessica Stites

Fiction Is a Beautiful Weapon in the Class War

A conversation with Sarah Lazare, the co-author of the leftist noir novel, Testimony.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Radical History of Black Cartoonists

Meet the comic artists inking on the margins.

Sherell Barbee