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On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read, “DID YOU ...
It will become clear by the end of this sentence that I am not bragging about this, but there was a time when I felt like I ...
The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself ...
Some people are fans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This ...
Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2025 ...
I finally get Midnights. I don’t just mean, “Oh, I thought this album was whatever when I first heard it, and now I really ...
In 2018, Mitski released her fifth album, Be the Cowboy. She had been putting out music that was as critically acclaimed as ...
It is easy enough to read about the climate crisis through the dozens of devastating stories that run each week, warning us ...
At some point in the thick of the pandemic, I became briefly obsessed with a silly-seeming online controversy over what is known as the double-beat theory. The argument concerns classical music, which ...
If it feels like white rappers are sprouting up all around us, it’s with good reason. Though they never really went ...
I’ve always struggled with the idea of a “guilty pleasure.” Truly innocent pleasure shouldn’t come with a side of shame. Most guilty pleasures are purposely private, indulged alone or among the ...
It’s pretty common these days for a television show to hold its viewers in contempt. Most “big-hearted comedies” treat you ...