We’re moving toward replacing cable TV with a bundle of streaming networks. Will local and news programming get lost in the transition?
Books, Arts and Culture
Read reviews and commentary on books, movies, video, tv, radio, podcasts, streaming, documentary, media, religion, history, sports, arts and entertainment, social media, Hollywood
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Domination Tour
Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?
Posted inBooks
Antitax Nation
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.
Posted inBooks
Who Controls Your Shopping Cart?
Austin Frerick’s ‘Barons’ follows the food-industry giants that have cornered giant portions of the market for everything from coffee to chicken thighs.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Social Distortion
On the fourth anniversary of the pandemic, a look at how America pulled apart as the rest of the world pulled together
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Feel-Good Movie That Almost Makes You Feel Bad
‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is uplifting and happy-sad. It was a more innocent time.
Posted inBooks
The Stories Corporations Tell
Two new histories of American capitalism reveal how alluring narratives have nurtured corporate power.
Posted inBooks
It’s the Working Class, Stupid
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Cultural Artifact That Meets the Moment
Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ nails how Trumpism functions at the most elemental of levels.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Bayard Rustin—Out of the Shadows
A new movie, a new book, and an old nonviolent warrior now given his rightful recognition