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Bernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. But Matt Darling of the Niskanen Center swears it’s not true and Dylan Matthews of Vox calls it a damned...

There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series on French poetic realism, a short-lived but intense film movement of the 1930s that is extraordinarily timely right now. A bleak and brooding yet beautifully poignant film genre...

Steven Soderbergh’s spy film Black Bag, currently in theaters, has come out just a few months after his ghost film Presence, making one wonder when the director actually sleeps. Black Bag is by far the...

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent. But since his inauguration, the federal agency that regulates banks has abandoned its support for a state law designed to reduce credit...

There are nearly half a million private citizens in Colombia — more than all the country’s soldiers and police officers combined — who legally carry weapons and are licensed to kill. The armed men and...

Juliet Gray never thought her makeup could harm her. But after years of regularly applying powders, eye shadow, and blush, Gray was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma, an aggressive, incurable form of cancer. She can’t be...

The work of sociologist Michael Burawoy, who was killed in a traffic accident on February 3, combined in equal measure optimism and realism. Born the child of émigrés from the Soviet Union, he began his...

Bernie Sanders is a big fan of citing troubling economic statistics. One of the figures that he features in his rotation is that 60 percent of Americans live “paycheck to paycheck.” This number consistently irritates certain...

A woman’s face emerges from the many exposed layers of plaster. The cheeks have lost their glow. The crack that cuts through the fine contours and has claimed one eye is only scarcely closed with...

In 1987, a homeless woman named Joyce Brown was forcibly hospitalized by the City of New York. Brown had been seen on the streets urinating, defecating, running into traffic, and tearing apart dollar bills —...

“Years of silence lead to a minute of silence.” It was one of the most frequently shared phrases on social media, the day after fifty-nine people died in Kočani, a small town in the east...

Severance is probably the best show on television. And I only say “probably” because I can’t possibly watch everything on television for the sake of comparison. Is there already an online backlash beginning to develop...