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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few weeks ago, a snippet of a YouTube video titled “1 Progressive vs. 20 Far-Right Conservatives” began circulating on social media. In the clip, British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan debates an…

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. The recent heat wave may be a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The title of French director and screenwriter Boris Lozhkin’s new film, The Souleymane Story, contains several interconnected meanings. In the most general sense, it describes the film itself: it’s the story…

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll , a weekly column by Kyle Chayka about how technology shapes culture. The Tea app is a digital platform for women to connect. Men are not allowed to participate. To…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story After the Civil War, German-Jewish businessman Isidor Strauss moved to New York City with his family. Strauss was a quick-witted, handsome man with small round glasses, an angular nose, and a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cover of the August 11, 2025, issue by artist Amy Sherald features a portrait of transgender model and performance artist Areva Basit. The piece is on display in Sherald’s exhibition…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One evening last spring, the audience at a bagpipe concert in Red Hook, Brooklyn, was divided into two distinct groups: those who knew little or nothing about bagpipes—the majority—and those who…

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. Stan Douglas is a remarkable, singular artist…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Even if Mozart’s name and the quotation from Beaumarchais’s play The Marriage of Figaro had not appeared in the credits of The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir’s 1939 film would…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The year is 2018. I am in a classroom for the first time at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, a maximum-security prison for men. There are sixteen students…