Batman

Did the age of progressive politics in American comics really end in the 1990s?

• By Katie Kilkenny

The costumes are itchy, the candy bores him, and we keep asking him to be someone he’s not.

• By David M. Perry

We've been worried about a surveillance state since long before George Orwell's 1984. But one thing the Boston bombing taught us is that friends and family are watching much more closely than the FBI.

• By Seth Masket