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Why We’re All Living in Matthew Barney’s Sticky, Slimy World
In May and June, Matthew Barney, the visionary artist behind the epic “Cremaster Cycle” film series (1994-2002) and “River of…
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News
Can the Left Be Happy?
A crucial moment in the development of modern left-wing culture arrived some time in 2013, when Ta-Nehisi Coates, reading books…
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World
A Watershed Moment for the Politics of Israel, Courtesy of Chuck Schumer
Republicans have long sought to make Israel a partisan issue, framing their party as the only one truly supportive of…
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World
Why Power Eludes the French Left
The signs that a protest is happening in Paris are nearly always the same: the quiet of blocked-off streets; the…
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Business
Your Old 401(k): Out of Sight, Out of Mind and Out of Money
In 2024, more low-balance, forgotten 401(k)s and similar retirement plans could be forced into rollover accounts, which don’t benefit their…
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News
What’s Driving Former Progressives to the Right?
In a new essay in the progressive magazine In These Times, the writers Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet grapple with…
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News
How Geert Wilders Won
A country where depopulating rural areas are losing physicians, bus stops and elementary schools while urban areas thrive is fertile…
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News
Has Latin America Found Its Trump?
The election of Javier Milei, a wild-haired showboating weirdo with five cloned mastiffs and a habit of psychic communion with…
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News
What’s Happening in Germany Reveals the Strange State of the Left
On Monday morning, Sahra Wagenknecht, the most charismatic politician in Germany’s Left party, led an uprising against it. A longtime…
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World
Cornel West’s Improvisational Run for President: ‘It’s Jazz All the Way Down’
Is the celebrity professor’s candidacy a wild variable in the 2024 presidential campaign or performance art? Yes, he says.
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