Category: Culture

During Donald Trump’s first presidency, one of the most recycled op-ed templates was something along the lines of “Stop saying this isn’t America,” which wasn’t a response to the president so much as a response to those who found Trump’s ...

Perhaps no series better represents Warner Bros. Discovery’s ongoing fall from grace than The Curious Case from Natalia Grace. At first blush, the true story told by these documentaries is a compelling and tragic one: a Ukrainian orphan with dwarfism ...

As someone who writes about both politics and pop culture, I often strive to find the connections between the two – the areas where politics does indeed seem to be downstream from culture, and the way that relationship feels like ...

Going into this year’s albums of the year list, I knew two things for certain: I wanted a list of at least 20, but I could only name five off the top of my head that were absolute locks to ...

Going into this year’s albums of the year list, I knew two things for certain: I wanted a list of at least 20, but I could only name five off the top of my head that were absolute locks to ...

It happens to me almost every year – I fret that I’ve only been listening to the same five artists on repeat, and that I won’t be able to put together another Top Songs or Albums of the Year list. ...

It happens to me almost every year – I fret that I’ve only been listening to the same five artists on repeat, and that I won’t be able to put together another Top Songs or Albums of the Year list. ...

Way back in 2021, Politics Editor Lars Emerson and I launched Watching Mates, a podcast that discussed the films we thought best represented each post-war presidency. The final episode, about the then nascent Biden administration, dropped in February of 2022, ...

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Cover music long enough, and you come to accept that there are plenty of artists that will never make the big time – they’re too harsh, too niche, too goofy, too intense. But every once and a while you come ...

Oh, it seems like just yesterday, but it was really last summer when Drake was on top of the world. I had gone to see him at Capital One Arena and it was probably one of the most energy laden ...

There might not be a hotter indie rock subgenre among the Zoomers than shoegaze. For whatever reason, the under 28 crowd is flocking to bands whaling away at ludicrously distorted guitars, abusing their whammy bars, and cloaking their vocals deep ...

Just like I’ve done a few times before, I’m writing about two weeks in one post: Week 10  Week 11

I kept hearing from news outlets that Tyler, the Creator’s new album CHROMAKOPIA was going to be released on Monday, October 27 instead of the now typical new release date of Friday, and thatTyler stated he watned people to “live ...

We’re breaking down two weeks in one post again today… Week 5 Week 6