Toward a Better Understanding of the Difference Between Conflict and Harassment
There’s a big difference between a power struggle and real abuse, novelist Sarah Schulman argues — and nations and individuals…
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Can ‘Westworld’ Give Us New Ways of Talking About Slavery?
In its first four episodes, HBO’s latest Sunday-night extravaganza takes its postcolonialism seriously. By David Perry Westworld. (Photo: HBO)…
Seeking My Sister in an Afghan War Memorial
Eight years after my sister died in Kabul, I return to the temporary Artists Transforming Afghanistan exhibit in…
Ghosts and the American Conscience
“The slave ships to the Americas are still sailing,” intoned the historian Marcus Rediker, “only they’re ghost ships…
The Creeping Tyranny of ‘Designated Survivor’
Kiefer Sutherland returns for another round of neoconservative revenge fantasy. By Jared Keller Designated Survivor. (Photo: ABC) In 1862,…
Maybe Parents Should Have Guarded Their Kids From ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Another study indicates that PG-13 movies are selling explicit and realistic violence to kids—at levels surpassing that of R-rated films.
One Last Thing: Sriracha
If it weren’t so delicious, it would be passé. Americans can now find Huy Fong Foods’ Sriracha sauce…
Printed Pistols and Racial Panic
When Cody Wilson pioneered 3-D printing for guns, he claimed the technology represented a victory for liberty. In Wilson's new book, it seems "liberty" can also mean "racial purity."
Presidential Movies: A Flattery Scale
Last month’s Southside With You joins a long line of fawning narratives about American presidents — a list that offers…
Hip-Hop and the Liberation of Women in Kabul
The Taliban may no longer control the airwaves, but young women in Afghanistan still face torture and death…