Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet another attempt to update the Jane Austen formula, but without the poignancy and beauty of Song’s acclaimed Past Lives.
Last year was a bad one for incumbent political parties and for women. One country, however, bucked all these trends: Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum, won the presidency in a landslide.
Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.
Since the very earliest days of the United States, class was a central lens through which Americans interpreted politics . . . in the 1960s politicians began to focus on race and gender . . . Now, with Trump . . . class appears to be back . . .
In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.
In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.
Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.
The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”
In South Asia, from mass unrest to political upheaval
What “balanced” coverage covers up about Trump’s bombast and Project 2025
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