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Can Bollywood Survive Modi?
Its films have always celebrated a pluralistic India, making the industry—and its Muslim elite—a target of Hindu nationalists.
Bust The Police Unions
They don’t just protect members at all costs—they condition officers to see themselves as above the law.
Admit It, You Miss Your Commute
You may have thought its only purpose was to get you to and from work. But it was doing something more.
A New Hope for Star Wars
What The Mandalorian teaches us about the true power of George Lucas’s galaxy—and how to restore it
Estebanico's America
The story of Africans on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.
Fiction – Bump
To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.
Stacey Abrams Writes A Thriller
How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die
PULLING COUNT
MY SIX MONTHS ON THE LINE IN A DODGE CITY MEATPACKING PLANT
Infomercial for America
The timeless appeal of Top Gun
The Power of Refusal
New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore women’s struggle to withdraw and create.
Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?
Conservatives hope to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner.
Elvis Reenters The Building
In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.
Alison Bechdel's Spiritual Sprint
In her new memoir, the cartoonist runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Solo exes her way toward transcendence.
Purgatory At Sea
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.
How To End Extreme Child Poverty
Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.
Burn All The Leggings
What do you wear to the reopening of society?
The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
The Diplomat Who Disappeared
In 1974, John Patterson, an american diplomat on his first assignment abroad, was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000 and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
What Richard Wright Knew
A previously unpublished novel reveals his bleak prescience about race in America.
THE WAR ON NOSTALGIA
The myth of the Lost Cause is passed down like an heirloom. What would it take for the truth to break through?
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
The Boutique In Your Bedroom
As stores disappear, shopping in your own closet becomes the ultimate luxury.
The Human Side of Fracking
Living with the allure and danger of a lucrative, dirty industry
The Power of the First Lady
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own
How Will We Remember The Pandemic?
The science of how our memories form— and how they shape our future
‘It's Always Been About Exclusion'
America is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
Hormone Monsters
Television turns to magicaal realism to explore the trials of early adolescence.
Can Justice Be Served On Zoom?
COVID-19 has transformed America’s courts.
The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.
Dispatches: America Without God
As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?