Culture
Editors' Picks
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Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle Over Hair
Aug 04, 2015While men's hair can often be neutral, women's hair is fraught with questions of sexuality, professionalism, and identity.
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The Politics of Virtual Reality
Jul 12, 2015With inexpensive immersive media about to hit the market, we need to ask: How will they affect us? And can they be put to good use?
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The French Disconnection
Aug 05, 2015Can the ideal of a secular Republic accommodate the new cultural pluralism?
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Last Day of a Young Black Man
Jul 23, 2013Fruitvale Station's intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film.
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Piety and Politics in America
May 15, 2015The tension between religiosity and secular government goes back to the nation’s founding.
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It's All About the Money
May 21, 2015How America became preoccupied with higher education’s bottom line.
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Who Loses If Trump Cuts Public Media Funding? His Supporters.
Mar 22, 2017Ending federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as President Trump proposes, will shutter local stations in rural areas and poorer states, and hit GOP constituents hardest.
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Q&A: A Tale Told by an Idiot: Shakespeare and Trump
Feb 06, 2017Allyn Burrows on mad kings, tragedy, and why Trump would fall short as a Shakespearean protagonist.
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In the Age of Trump, Resistance Requires Creativity
Jan 18, 2017As the political class in Washington, D.C., struggles to carve a path of resistance to the incoming Trump administration, artists are leading the way. Institutional players in liberal politics should pay attention.
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Remembering Gwen Ifill: Truth Teller and Exemplar of Civility
Dec 03, 2016Sherrilyn Ifill reflects on the legacy of her cousin, political journalist Gwen Ifill, who died on November 14 following a groundbreaking career that included stints at The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC, and PBS.
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Black Culture and History Matter
Feb 04, 2016It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.
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Political Money: New Best-Selling Book Genre?
Jan 28, 2016A rash of new political money books signals that publishers now regard the once-obscure issue of campaign financing as popular fare.
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David Bowie, Media Economist
Jan 15, 2016How Bowie's predictions of the digital media revolution reshaped music, books, and journalism.
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Movies of the Year: A Bracing Dose of Reality
Dec 28, 2015This year's most powerful movies all draw on actual events and tackle big public issues and ethical dilemmas.
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Frank Sinatra, America's Definitive Voice
Dec 11, 2015An immigrant's kid gave our Songbook eternal life.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates's Caricature of Black Reality
Nov 19, 2015Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the race book of the year. Too bad it’s disempowering.
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The Spanish Speaker on the Balcony
Sep 24, 2015The pope's speech outside the Capitol conveyed a spirit of inclusivity and solidarity.
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The Sometime Liberal
Aug 20, 2015An intellectual in public service, Pat Moynihan defied categorization.
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The Evolving Politics of Punk in the Nation's Capital
Jul 15, 2015Retrospective projects like the library's new Punk Archive uncover D.C.'s radical past, but the scene remains at the center of the struggle for inclusion and human rights.
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Gawker Changed the Internet. Can It Change Workplace Organizing?
May 28, 2015What the site's very public union drive means for the future of digital journalism.
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The Real Story of the American Family
May 14, 2015Two new books explain how rising inequality shattered the working-class family of the mid-20th century.
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