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June 29, 2023
Magazine
Maria Laurino
The Right’s New Post-
Dobbs
Panacea: The Baby Safe Deposit Box
To the right, it’s a “clean” alternative to abortion—mothers can just drop their babies off in fire station boxes. And it’s spreading across the country. How did a desperate and once criminal act get turned into a good thing?
June 28, 2023
Magazine
Claire Potter
The Right’s Campus Culture War Machine
How conservatives built a formidable network for ginning up scandal in higher education
June 27, 2023
Magazine
Zachary Siegel
Their Kids Died of Fentanyl Overdoses. Republicans Can’t Wait to Exploit It.
Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.
June 26, 2023
Magazine
Scott W. Stern
Where Does the South Begin?
A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.
June 23, 2023
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Win McCormack
Black Cat or White Cat
Which will catch the most mice?
June 22, 2023
Magazine
The New Republic
The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.
June 22, 2023
Magazine
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TNR Staffers on 15 Great Political Films Missing From the Critics’ List
Our—incomplete—guide to the list’s oversights, travesties, and glaring omissions
June 22, 2023
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Rosanna Warren
The Mud Hole
June 22, 2023
Magazine
Derrick Austin
Leaving Dante, Virgil Returns to Limbo
June 22, 2023
Magazine
J. Hoberman
What Is a “Political Film,” Anyway?
It’s about revolution. Or elections. It can be a thriller. Or a comedy. It’s a movie whose politics we love. It’s a movie whose politics we detest. It’s even, sometimes, a zombie movie.
June 21, 2023
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Rumaan Alam
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reckoning With Cold War Deceptions
“Kairos” is both a novel about the collision between two people and about the collision of two German lives.
June 19, 2023
Magazine
Andre Pagliarini
The Plan to Split Democracies Into Tiny Pieces
From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.
June 16, 2023
Magazine
Maggie Doherty
Lorrie Moore Turns to Stranger Things
“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.
June 14, 2023
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Who Said It: Steve Bannon or Jack Donaghy?
When the anti-elitist rhetoric of the privileged all sounds the same
June 12, 2023
Magazine
Alex Shephard
The Rise of Independent Voters Is a Myth
A recent poll found that nearly half of Americans identify as independent. But they’re hiding the real truth about how they vote.
June 9, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
The Other Two
Captures the Strangeness of Social Media Stardom
No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.
May 16, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
So Trump Is Dodging Questions About a Federal Abortion Ban. Hold Your Applause.
Some people think the GOP is retreating from abortion bans because they’re unpopular. If only.
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