Culture

The Stories We Live By: Why the White Working Class Votes Conservative

In Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild travels south to study what gives conservative ideology its power.

Theo Anderson

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Big Data Isn’t Just Watching You—It’s Making You Poorer

Cathy O’Neil's new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, shows mathematical models aren't free of ideology.

Pankaj Mehta

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Walking While Black

Encounters with police in New York City.

Garnette Cadogan

Culture

In Ixcanul, Guatemala’s First-Ever Oscar Entry, Feminism Erupts in a Small Mayan Community

Filmed entirely in Kaqchikel, Jayro Bustamante’s new movie explores a clash between reproductive rights and tradition.

Michael Atkinson

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Can There Be a Party of the Left in Britain?

Party brass may not like it, but Jeremy Corbyn's popularity could herald a new era for Labour.

Jane Miller

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Werner Herzog Wants To Know: “Does the Internet Dream?”

In Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, the septuagenarian filmmaker explores online gaming, self-driving cars and soccer-playing robots.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

James Baldwin’s Many Heirs

In the essay collection The Fire This Time, a new generation of Black writers keeps Baldwin's flame alight.

Erin Aubry Kaplan

Culture

Sim City and the Worst Ways to End Homelessness

The neoliberal mindset doesn't compute with ethical public policy.

Rebecca Burns

Culture

These Newly Restored Indie Films from Cinema’s Early Days Show Black Life From a Black Perspective

A five-disc DVD set offers a glimpse into pre-civil rights era black culture.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

Filmmakers Adapt John le Carré’s Spy Novels for the Age of Snowden

The BBC miniseries The Night Manager and new film Our Kind of Traitor fumble with morality and power.

Jake Blumgart

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Socialism for Beginners

The radical Left is becoming more mainstream—and conservatives are taking note.

Richard Seymour

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Donald Trump’s Fingers Were Always Short

In business as in politics, there's never been much behind the splashy surface.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

Shuffling Off the Mortal Coil

On the passing of my friend, Daniel Aaron.

Jane Miller

Culture

In Gaza, the Drones Never Sleep

Atef Abu Saif's wartime diaries offer a chilling voice of witness from Israel's 50-day bombardment of Palestine during Operation Protective Edge.

Nancy Kricorian

Culture

The Tragedy of Brexit

In Thursday's Brexit referendum, Britain decided its fate. But what will that fate be?

Jane Miller

Culture

Sex, Violence and Unions

Workers in porn and wrestling face similar obstacles to effective labor organizing—and may need to work together.

Jetta Rae

Culture

Capitalism’s Favorite Show

Undercover Boss is a mirage.

Michael Terry

Culture

A French Take on John Wayne

When a French family tries to hold on to the past, it doesn't end well.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

Requiem for an American Dream

Between fiction and reality in rural Louisiana.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

The View From Today’s Versailles

A new book by Michelle Fields, former Breitbart reporter, rightly skewers our political class—but suffers from a case of hypocrisy

Chris Lehmann

Culture

The Case Against Using the GDP as a Measure of Economic Health

The GDP has always been a bitterly contested yardstick, explains Ehsan Masood in a new history.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

The Ship Breakers

Working the maritime graveyard shift

Peter Wieben

Culture

Cuts for the Poor, Tax Havens for the Rich

The Panama Papers expose the hypocrisy of England's oligarchs.

Jane Miller

Culture

Jane Austen, Class Warrior

Most Austen adaptations are little more than 'buttoned-up, tea-drinking porn.' But Whit Stillman's new film 'Love & Friendship' foregrounds Austen's sharp observations on social mobility.

Eileen Jones