In the 1970s, I co-founded 9 to 5, an organization that campaigned for equality at work. Dolly Parton’s outsize presence helped us win.

Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley are the oh-so-wholesome survivors of a global pandemic in Scott’s postapocalyptic blockbuster.

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

Siegfried Kracauer believed movies could offer early warnings of political disaster.

Carlos Barragán’s reporting on young men in Nigeria who defrauded women over the internet illuminates a grim world of poverty and loneliness.

The new center displays the Boss’s “Born to Run” Telecaster, hand-written lyrics, and more. But it also tells a much longer and bigger story about American music.

A new book argues that the Marquis de Morès was a forerunner of Hitler and Mussolini, even though they emerged from very different political moments.

In the new Hulu show, both the killer on the loose and the detectives pursuing her are righteously angry women.

The seasoned criminals of “Cool Machine” adapt to the chaos, striving, and gentrification of the 1980s.

The global economy depends on the U.S. dollar, even when the U.S. acts erratically.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is gently eerie and filled with longing.

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp is a practical guide to opposing ICE and a strong moral argument for action.

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault, and their peers but found them incompatible with the real world. Did she give up too soon?

As a new biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment, but it has many gaps.

In his new book The God Test, Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

In her history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Molly Crabapple tells the story of workers who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and nationalism.

The FIFA president’s plan to sell off a stake of the World Cup suggests he’s emulating his hero.

AMC’s TV adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is an all-consuming spectacle.

Emily LaBarge was taken hostage with her family on vacation over Christmas 2009. Her memoir acknowledges the gaps in her memory, and the details she won’t share.

The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.