The path to the World Cup is accessible to only a narrow slice of American soccer players.
Karla Murthy’s new documentary film about her immigrant father’s tumultuous journey up and back down the class ladder turns the mythology of the American dream on its head. It’s a story many native-born Americans will find strikingly familiar.
Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean.
While celebrities walked the red carpet at fashion's biggest night yesterday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent the evening spotlighting the garment workers, tailors, and retail employees who actually make the fashion industry possible.
War on the homefront
The left-wing actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, currently in two plays in New York, describes a harsh midlife conversion to class politics — transforming from a disengaged liberal to someone who sees himself as “a participant in the world struggle.
How Stephen Miller’s personal and political war on the 14th Amendment conflicts with the larger Reconstruction story and the vision of an egalitarian society for all who claim this nation.
By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing
An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of tenderness and bravery in overwhelming times.
How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?
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