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culture wars
Feb. 9, 2024
Gina Carano and Elon Musk Team Up Against Disney and Lucasfilm These two think they’re the scrappy underdogs in this free-speech fight.
‘Things Got Really Scary Really Fast During Pride Month’ Three Target employees on being harassed and threatened by customers.
By Bindu Bansinath
Yellowstone ’s Brand of White Grievance Is Free-Range and OrganicA talk with Tressie McMillan Cottom about the blockbuster show’s soft politics, and whether Taylor Sheridan is “the white person’s Tyler Perry.”
By Sam Sanders
culture wars
May 17, 2022
Mother Outraged Her Biracial Son Has Learned to Identify Racism Melissa Riley tried to sue her son’s middle school for teaching him about inequality.
By Danielle Cohen
What Happened at Carmine’s A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021. Maybe a bit too neatly.
By Bridget Read
past is prologue
Nov. 11, 2021
American Politics Is Back to the Future Crime, inflation, parental rights in schools aren’t new issues at all, but a blast from the Republican revival of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
Oct. 13, 2021
Mark Robinson Exposes the GOP’s Problem With Its Base The North Carolina lieutenant governor’s extreme culture-war positions may excite the MAGA faithful, but they’re broadly unpopular.
By Ed Kilgore
culture wars
Aug. 30, 2021
Critical Race Theory Might Actually Save Us Don’t think of it as a theoretical exercise in the classroom or in the courts. Consider it the reality check our democracy needs in order to survive.
By Brittney Cooper
culture wars
Apr. 27, 2021
You Don’t Have to Be Woke to Dislike Anti-Woke Democrats James Carville’s surface-level analysis of Louisiana politics is the 2021 version of “hippie punching.”
By Ed Kilgore
lgbtq rights
May 21, 2019
Texas Republicans Fighting to Protect Chick-fil-A’s Right to Discriminate In a mostly symbolic fight between equality and “religious liberty,” Republicans stand up for the Evangelical chicken purveyor.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Aren’t Cultural ‘Extremists,’ They’ve Moved With the Country Ross Douthat is wrong: Republicans are the ones who have abandoned “cultural centrism.”
By Ed Kilgore
campus controversies
Jan. 11, 2019
Is a Professor Getting Railroaded for Questioning Social-Justice Dogma? Peter Boghossian claims his university is only investigating him because it is politically hostile to his research. The truth is more complicated.
By Jesse Singal
culture wars
June 19, 2018
By Jordan Crucchiola
culture wars
Oct. 5, 2017
Dannon Yogurt Drops Spokesperson Cam Newton They’ve yet to comment on Jourdan Rodrigue’s racist tweets.
By Leah Rodriguez
microaggressions
Jan. 17, 2017
How Microaggression Training Could Be Harming Minority Students Sometimes, a psychological idea moves from the drawing board to applied settings a bit too quickly. It might be time to slow down.
By Jesse Singal
select all
Sept. 30, 2016
Why the Video-Game Culture Wars Won’t Die, Two Years After Gamergate Video-game culture warriors have a different, more fraught relationship to their hobby than other people do.
By Jesse Singal
Fragile Conservatives Are Upset That a Woman Blocked Them on Twitter A new article takes a creepily close look at who Lindy West is blocking.
By Jesse Singal
Why a Video of Someone Playing ‘Doom’ (Poorly) Became a Culture-War Issue Those damn social-justice warriors need to learn how to strafe and shoot at the same time.
By Jesse Singal
antonin scalia
Feb. 22, 2016
Law Students ‘Traumatized’ by Anti-Scalia Email “All we can do, really, is convey our solidarity with our wonderful students. We share your pain. We share your anger. We stand with you. You are not alone. Be strong as Justice Scalia was strong.”
By Jesse Singal
culture wars
Feb. 7, 2016
By Jesse Singal
Gay Men and Christian Wombs: Surrogacy’s New Frontier Meet the red-state women carrying blue-state babies for gay men.
By Rachel R. White
culture wars
Aug. 13, 2012
Brinker’s Way: Behind the Pseudo-Exit of the Komen Foundation’s Founder Nancy Brinker is still in charge of the women’s health organization, despite a move to the executive committee.
By Lea Goldman
Culture Wars
Jan. 6, 2011
Is Esquire ’s ‘Best New York Restaurants’ List Out of It’s all French, Italian, and (with the exception of Osteria Morini), above 28th Street. What gives?
By Jenny Miller
culture wars
Dec. 13, 2010
Warhol Foundation Threatens to Cut Smithsonian Funding Because, unlike Boehner, the Warhol Foundation actually paid for it.
By Mike Vilensky
tell us what you really think
Nov. 12, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
culture wars
Feb. 17, 2010
By Dan Amira
culture wars
Oct. 2, 2009
By Lindsay Robertson