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Why We’re All Living in Matthew Barney’s Sticky, Slimy World

In May and June, Matthew Barney, the visionary artist behind the epic “Cremaster Cycle” film series (1994-2002) and “River of…

World

Can the Left Be Happy?

A crucial moment in the development of modern left-wing culture arrived some time in 2013, when Ta-Nehisi Coates, reading books…

Travel

A Watershed Moment for the Politics of Israel, Courtesy of Chuck Schumer

Republicans have long sought to make Israel a partisan issue, framing their party as the only one truly supportive of…

World

Why Power Eludes the French Left

The signs that a protest is happening in Paris are nearly always the same: the quiet of blocked-off streets; the…

Business

Your Old 401(k): Out of Sight, Out of Mind and Out of Money

In 2024, more low-balance, forgotten 401(k)s and similar retirement plans could be forced into rollover accounts, which don’t benefit their…

World

What’s Driving Former Progressives to the Right?

In a new essay in the progressive magazine In These Times, the writers Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet grapple with…

World

How Geert Wilders Won

A country where depopulating rural areas are losing physicians, bus stops and elementary schools while urban areas thrive is fertile…

World

Has Latin America Found Its Trump?

The election of Javier Milei, a wild-haired showboating weirdo with five cloned mastiffs and a habit of psychic communion with…

World

What’s Happening in Germany Reveals the Strange State of the Left

On Monday morning, Sahra Wagenknecht, the most charismatic politician in Germany’s Left party, led an uprising against it. A longtime…

Travel

Cornel West’s Improvisational Run for President: ‘It’s Jazz All the Way Down’

Is the celebrity professor’s candidacy a wild variable in the 2024 presidential campaign or performance art? Yes, he says.

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