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'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
Books
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
Books
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
Books
'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
Books
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
Books
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
Interviews
Noah Preminger Talks About His Bold Jazz Protest Album, 'Meditations on Freedom'
Protest music is both an empathizing artform and an empowering oppositional force. Saxophonist Noah Preminger has taken his own stand, releasing his sixth album on Inauguration Day.
24 Aug 2017
Reviews
'The Devil's Bargain': Some Men Just Want to Watch America Burn
Joshua Green’s swift and incisive political war story tells how Steve Bannon's years-long nationalist insurgent campaign culminated in the election of Donald Trump.
14 Aug 2017
Books
'Pussy' Is a Savage Satire in the Form of a Comic Fairytale
Howard Jacobson shows that Donald Trump may not be beyond satire, after all...
14 Jun 2017
Television
One Nation, Divided by Humor
We may be one nation in America, but today we appear to be living on different planets.
12 Jun 2017
Politics
Can We Say the F Word Yet? On Fascism and Humor
In light of the decrees and executive orders signed thus far by Donald Trump, we might reasonably ask: is fascism relevant to America's current political state?
16 Apr 2017
Politics
Vulgarians 101: A Course for Future Leaders of America
A dystopian syllabus for an inevitable future at a hypothetical university.
28 Feb 2017
Culture
The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump
Did Shakespeare predict Trump? No. That's ridiculous. He just wrote a play about a thin-skinned, petty, self-aggrandising narcissist whose poor leadership drove an empire to ruin. Totally different.
08 Feb 2017
Events
On the Glories of Mardi Gras and Trump's Inaugural Just Desserts
I suppose sometimes a cake is just a cake, but more often than not, it’s not.
05 Feb 2017
Politics
Trumpaholism, or, Is "Liquor Before Beer, Never Fear" a Piece of Fake News?
How I worry when I drink, and why Distilled Knowledge is diffuse knowledge.
14 Dec 2016
Politics
America in the Age of Trump: Boycotts, Condonations, and 'The Divide'
Is AntiBookClub's call to Penguin Random House to drop The Art of the Deal from their catalog an effective form of resistance?
23 Nov 2016
Music
Privilege Corrupts: Donald Trump and "The Devil in His Youth"
How a song by Protomartyr keeps taking on new meaning in the age of Donald Trump.
07 Aug 2016
Music
Fantastic Negrito's "Working Poor" Is the Soundtrack to the Summer of '16
America's working poor exist in a shadow cast by the harsh light of prosperity. "Working Poor" speaks from those shadows, creates light within that space, and insists on being heard.
12 Jul 2016
Politics
Tomorrow Belongs to Me: "Freedom's Call", Donald Trump and Propaganda
When you see and hear a group of children in star-spangled cheerleader outfits lip-syncing the words “Cowardice! Are you serious?” to an EDM reworking of the 1917 patriotic song “Over There”, that is the moment you should wake up.
06 Mar 2016
Culture
When Did Quitting Become the New “Staying the Course”?
Simon Cowell, like Sarah Palin, did the honorable thing and quit for the sake of the people. Really?!
09 Jun 2010
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