The Supreme Court needs to understand sociology
Justice Roberts is undermining the Supreme Court’s mission.
How Halloween sitcom episodes teach kids to be weird
On Halloween, the normal sitcom rules don’t apply.
Open Mike Eagle is proving black culture isn’t a monolith
“Art rap” challenges our hip-hop stereotypes.
Haitians are facing two threats: natural disaster and deportation
At home and in the U.S., Haitians remain at risk.
A GQ writer’s powerful essay on Dylann Roof is a lesson on how to cover white supremacy
We can’t understand white supremacy if we don’t write precisely.
The case for bat flips
Like so many things, the culture of baseball is often discussed in terms of playing “the right way,” when we really mean “the white way.”
Comedy needs more Hari Kondabolus and fewer Bill Mahers
Kondabolu brings a personal and an academic understanding of race to an art form that sorely needs it.
‘Baby Driver’s’ poor treatment of women is all too familiar
When otherwise good movies minimize women, they perpetuate a systemically misogynistic media landscape.
The U.S. poet laureate matters — especially in uncertain times
Poetry can reassure us, it can challenge us and it can educate us. A good poet laureate can do all those thing as well.