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Painting for the Future and Talking to the Dead
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish painter born in 1862 who painted big, bold canvases suffused with rich, strange colors denoting masculine and feminine, …
5 years ago
Blame It On the Booze
Nearly a quarter of American adults reported drinking more at home to cope with their pandemic blues. This week, we take a deep dive into the ancient…
5 years ago
Aaron Copland's Sound of America
There are many Americas. Nowadays they barely speak to each other. But during the most perilous years of the last century, one young composer went in…
5 years ago
The Road to Insurrection
This week marks six months since January 6th, the day a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol. Over 500 rioters have since been arrested, but the lega…
5 years ago
Is 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' a Neo-Confederate Anthem?
It's been noted that Trump’s Big Lie and the violence it produced is reminiscent of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy — a potent narrative of grievan…
5 years, 1 month ago
"We Are Putting Out A Damn Paper"
June 28th marks the anniversary of a mass shooting that took place inside a newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, killing five journalists. On this week's…
5 years, 1 month ago
A New Model for Local Journalism?
In the 1800s, New Bedford, Massachusetts was the world’s “center of whaling.” More than half of the world’s whaling ships in the 1840s came from New …
5 years, 1 month ago
Behind Closed Doors
New reports show that the Trump Department of Justice spied on reporters. But that’s just a small part of a much longer story, going back decades. Th…
5 years, 1 month ago
From Public Shaming To Cancel Culture
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve taken on some of the battles in the ongoing culture war. The granddaddy of them all is cancel culture. Michael Ho…
5 years, 1 month ago
Little Fires Everywhere
Trump may be out of office, but the GOP's campaign to limit voting rights, free speech, and reproductive rights is still in full-swing. On this week’…
5 years, 1 month ago