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Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past 40 years have proved that democracy ...
The strapline for Women’s Fightback says we stand for sex positive, trans-inclusive, class-struggle feminism. For many readers, class struggle and trans-inclusivity will speak for themselves. But what ...
There isn’t another actor alive whom I’d rather watch than Michael Douglas. Just as Pauline Kael once said that the thought ...
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Why We Can’t Quit Our Y2K Obsessions
Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it ...
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Alison Bechdel’s Next Step
Copyright © 2025 by Alison Bechdel. Reprinted by permission. In the early aughts, Alison Bechdel was a struggling cartoonist.
Since its inception in 1947, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been the world’s foremost platform for artists to challenge ...
For a long stretch of his life, Daddy had two women to nurture him—Mrs. Williams and my mother—but Our Ma had only one ...
How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...
Katz has the manic energy of a sleep-deprived, over-caffeinated 20-something New Yorker caught up in a cause. When we met for ...
Zohran Mamdani is facing a flood of Islamophobic and anti-immigrant attacks from Trump, influencers, and even some Democrats.
Emily Ratajkowski is stunning in her ruched braless minidress while lounging around her bed, but fans aren't happy at all.