New Future

In every generation, charlatans come along with a plan to make education better by spending less money on schools.

The Baffler looks back in anger at 2024.

“How do you create stories in a world that only aspires to retirement and dreams only of conforming? ”

Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling 2019 book “Say Nothing” has been adapted into a miniseries. It repeats the sins of its source material.

Most people are doing things that are as boring as anything could be. Things that they do multiple times a week. Things that they will not remember as they die.

Against the forced repatriation of Syrian refugees, whose asylum claims are in jeopardy after Bashar al-Assad’s fall.

Albert Cleage Jr. rejected the Black American Dream to pursue something more transcendent: utopia. A new book tells the story of Black Christian Nationalism.

Having lived through, and made, history, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Schrader are packing it up and taking it with them.

Ryan Ruby offers a vision of the poet as not only thoroughly alive but extraordinarily relevant: poets do R&D.

“Your use of your history to shield yourself is a betrayal. You have a lot of healing to do for yourself and for the harm you have caused. ”

In 2021, France returned twenty-six stolen objects to the present-day Republic of Benin. In “Dahomey, ” Mati Diop explores the complexities of this return.

In “Stranger Than Fiction, ” Edwin Frank asks: What was the twentieth-century novel?

While we are destroyed, we are not yet completely destroyed.

Seasonal migrant workers are the backbone of the agriculture industry. Labor abuse is already widespread—but it’s set to get worse under Trump.