Here’s one big risk a public satirist of racism takes: by displaying tropes and crude imagery, he reveals just how well he knows and can deploy them himself.

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An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.

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The story never reveals the nasty rumor about P., and this is just one of several bits of withheld information in the story. Disclosure, or its lack, both shapes the story and is the subject of this ...

Right—the second thing that makes “Heated Rivalry” so successful is the extreme freshness and handsomeness of the two leads, ...

Should New York go for the Olympic gold?

Robert Giard spent his career photographing hundreds of cultural luminaries and niche literary figures in the hopes of ...