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Judy Chicago’s “A Dinner Party” inspired a meal at the Museum of Food and Drink, in Brooklyn, honoring four women out of the thirty-nine in Chicago’s work. The trickiest part proved to be finding recipes from the relevant eras.

It would take just over a year, it would turn out, for the absurdity of Megyn Kelly Today’s founding proposition to come to its full fruition.

New Mexico poet Beate Sigriddaughter laments the absurdities of war, killing in the cause of “righteous dreams.”

Focusing on Ford Motor Co.’s rise, the author posits a connect between racial practices in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa and Ford’s divisive labor processes, seeing racism as an essential element in the creation of global capitalism.

At a moment when the President of the United States is attacking the very idea of U.S. citizenship, this book reminds us how the true — and Constitutional — ideal of who this country belongs to is embedded in our traditions.

It is, after all, about a slice of red-state America at a time of fierce political polarization. In the wake of the 2016 election, traveling to Monrovia—a mostly white town in the vice president’s home state—was hardly an idle or random decision.

The teens of "Sabrina" are witch and human, girl and gender nonconforming—and they have a message: If magic isn’t used for justice, then it’s not witchcraft.

Among jackals and ostriches, poet Timothy Donnelly satirizes the Court of King Don with pitch-perfect mimicry.

Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has gotten a few things wrong over his career. But his memoir shows a reporter with broad and brave consistency, exposing one atrocity and cover-up by the forces of American imperial power after another.

Here is a review of a new history of the pro-Nazi movement in the United States in the years before World War II. That movement was far more popular than many people know.