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Lucy DeVito talks about how FX's Little Demon brings something new—and charmingly, demonically feminist—to the saturated adult cartoon genre.

Has the war become boring, asks San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil, how can you not hear the mourning birds?

The author revisits his newly expanded influential work ‘Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,’ and talks solidarity, reciprocity, and expansive visions of emancipation.

John W. Dean and Bob Altemeyer's study, writes reviewer Sharpe, offers "considerable insight concerning the question of why the MAGA base shows itself so impervious to reasoned criticism of their hero, and so determined to stand by him."

The movie "Look Both Ways" was written before Roe was overturned, but director Wanuri Kahiu and star Lili Reinhart have said in interviews that it's pro-choice. I'm not so sure.

In recent years, the port of New Bedford has thrived, generating $11.1 billion in business revenue, jobs, taxes and personal income in 2018, according to one study. But a quiet shift is remaking the city and the industry that sustains it, realizing local fishermen’s deepest fears of losing control over their livelihood.

The Disney Plus series "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" is about body image issues, but it’s got some of its own

On the third anniversary of the El Paso Massacre of Latin Americans, prize-winning poet Martin Espada offers a tribute to a human rights lawyer killed by a shooter.

In More Than a Wall / Más que un Muro, labor journalist David Bacon offers a politically rich, bilingual compilation of photographs and oral histories. Corporations know no borders, while they rely on the US-Mexico border to keep wages low...

In this interview from five years ago, the author of this important book discusses some of the events and policies that have made Detroit a showcase for the neoliberal mode of urban development.