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Dave Eggers' 'The Captain and the Glory' Barely Stays Afloat
Dave Eggers' latest is a slim satire about the sinking ship of Donald Trump and the potential sinking of the glorious ship of State.
17 Jan 2020
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'Lake Success' Is a Picaresque Journey to Nowhere
Gary Shteyngart's state of the nation satire about a billionaire on the run doesn't tell us much about anything.
04 Oct 2018
Music
If It Happens Again: Revisiting UB40 in the Age of Brett Kavanaugh
In a typically absurd twist of Trump politics, England's reggae-pop hitmakers are back on the radar. Time to dig back into music's past.
04 Oct 2018
Books
'War in 140 Characters' Is to the Point
David Patrikarakos has written an engaging narrative that covers the activities and surroundings of eight 21st century social media crusaders.
17 Sep 2018
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On the Tight Confines of Madeleine Albright's Cold War Intellectual Straitjacket
The status quo of the past 30 years facilitated a massive transfer in wealth and public resources away from the average American and into the hands of a wealthy minority; a radical coup if ever there was one. Yet it was achieved democratically. A response to Madeleine Albright's Fascism: A Warning.
20 Jul 2018
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Why Are Evangelicals So Full of Fear? and So Supportive of Trump? Interview with Historian John Fea
As discussed with PopMatters, in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, Fea finds long roots in answering his questions, but he clears a path forward, too.
Justin Cober-Lake
27 Jun 2018
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"We are all Rachel Dolezal": on Asad Haider's 'Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump'
Among other critiques of identity politics, Haider believes that we each can slip between identities at will. Indeed, it's a universal human condition.
25 Jun 2018
Music
Kanye West: The Iconoclast Gives In
How the allure of newness is leading Kanye West astray.
29 May 2018
Books
How the Nobel Committee and the Great American Read (Among Others) Got Philip Roth Wrong
A sense of bitterness remains for those of us mourning the loss of this final great literary lion of the 20th century.
24 May 2018
Culture
Dispatches from the Sunken Place: Kanye, Kim, and Cosby
Get Out's Sunken Place is not at a distant location -- it subsists and persists in the here and now. Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Bill Cosby should know this.
17 May 2018
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What Does Trump Owe Putin? Michael Isikoff and David Corn's 'Russian Roulette'
These hard-hitting investigative reporters deliver the last (for this month, at least) word on Trump's mysterious infatuation with Putin.
25 Apr 2018
Film
Daryle Lamont Jenkins of Antifa Doc 'Alt-Right: Age of Rage' Isn't Waiting for Approval
Jenkins, founder of One Peoples Project, tells PopMatters that contrary to the fear many Americans feel, it's actually life-affirming to talk about fascism and racism.
23 Apr 2018
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Informed or Inflamed? Author Steve Almond Talks About How We Consume Trump
With the recent release of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Steve Almond talks in-depth about the US president whom most parents wouldn't even let on the playground -- and about his beef with the American left.
06 Apr 2018
Television
Is the Revival of 'Roseanne' Merely Televisual Grave-Robbing?
The return of Roseanne brings with it some complicated political baggage -- and it brings Dan Connor back from the dead.
05 Apr 2018
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'Bunk' Joins the Dots Between Barnum and Trump
Kevin Young painstakingly presents the history of hoaxes and why we keep falling for the same old shtick.
04 Apr 2018
Books
He's Martin Amis...and We're Not
The recent release of The Rub of Time once again marks Martin Amis amongst our most proficient critics, seemingly without peer in terms of his range and scope.
05 Mar 2018
Film
True/False Film Fest: 'Our New President'
The next film from Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer director Maxim Pozdorovkin treats us to Russian propaganda about the United States.
02 Mar 2018
Television
Stephen Colbert Gets a New Way to Satirize Trump with 'Our Cartoon President'
Beginning 11 February, Stephen Colbert will expand his satirical franchise with Our Cartoon President, an animated series lampooning the colorful personalities, complicated relationships and nonstop controversies of the Trump administration.
05 Feb 2018
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Is ‘Fire and Fury’ Trump’s Harvey Weinstein Moment?
Deft and crude, Michael Wolff's gossipy Trump Administration rip-and-read tells us what we already know—America is led by a mendacious man-child surrounded by dishonorable lackeys—but in a pungent style that makes it resonate.
10 Jan 2018
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‘The Best American Sports Writing 2017’: The Power of the Pen in a Year of Unquiet Americans
"We sometimes project our problems onto sports," Louisa Thomas notes. "But sports can also be ... where we start to work them out."
20 Dec 2017
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Feminist: 'Nasty Women', an Anthology
Wars of attrition are a matter of stamina, of who has the most tools with which to keep fighting. A surprising common tool in this collection? Humor.
12 Dec 2017
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On the Cathartic POW!er of Appropriating Trumpisms
The Unquotable Trump is a devious, dark, disturbing, brilliant delight that will prove the standard bearer for texts from the resistance.
28 Nov 2017
Books
Trump Parody 'You Can't Spell America Without Me' Is Undercooked
Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen present a rushed "meal" stuffed with random ingredients and served to a public that's still digesting the appetizer.
20 Nov 2017
Film
'11/8/16' : Engineered Shock
"You been saying white folks coming out to vote in record numbers, in the rural areas. And why did they come out? Because he [Trump] spoke their language."
03 Nov 2017
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