Seeking Peace in Medellín’s House of Memory
How a radically democratic museum experience in Colombia is helping citizens reckon with the history — and ongoing perils — of civil…
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A Critique of Conscience in Joseph DeLappe’s Video Games
DeLappe’s public-spirited Internet creations are a rebuke to colonial power — and to the hegemony of an art market run…
Why Do These White Women Look So Sad?
Is the Sad Girls movement an exceptionally morbid fashion trend, or a feminist statement? I talked to feminists…
You Don’t Have to Hear the Music to Get Down
How Dancing With the Stars became an unlikely showcase for deaf dancing’s singular beauty and culture. ByLilit Marcus…
Prince Gave Us ‘Diamonds and Pearls’ — Plus a Vision of Artistic Control
Prince was a creative legend. He was also a flawed business genius.
How to Survive the Apocalypse, According to Hollywood
Planet Earth is no stranger to being destroyed by Planet Hollywood. We’ve been annihilated, or at least significantly…
Why Are So Many Christians Obsessed With Predicting the Rapture?
The world did not come to an end on September 6, 1994. Nor on May 21, 2011,…
Seven Albums to Stop the Apocalypse
Friends, our time is almost certainly coming. When the aliens finally descend to crush all humanity, we have…
A History of the Subtle Sexism of Home Technology
For over a century, technology companies have peddled sophisticated solutions to liberate housewives, but when the tech fails…
These 12 Apps Will Revolutionize Motherhood, Except They Won’t
Apps such as TaskRabbit and Zum are trying to create a revolution for women’s domestic work. The problem…