Color Unbound: Matisse 1941-1954 Matisse. 1941-1954 Grand Palais, Paris March 24 - July 26, 2026 Catalogue (Thames & Hudson, 2026) Edited by Claudine

You is my friend I mean: Hugh is my friend But Hugh no longer understands They lie so much to Hugh that Hugh Can no longer tell What’s false or true Nor

It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington — or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the

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(Personal note: I have studied the Cuban revolution and taught about and been in solidarity with Cuba since the late 1960’s. I have visited five times

We are trained to see war as a failure of diplomacy. It is often a failure of perception long before diplomacy begins. We usually arrive at violence too

(Emmett Tatter is a writer who spent nearly 10 years in Florida prisons. He has recently finished a book, lectured at Flagler College, and started a

The war resides mostly in the background here in the aggressor nation. Most of those who think about it at all tend to oppose it and seem to think it’s a

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted this cartoon of himself with ‘Coalie,’ a lump of coal. Interior Secretary Doug Burgam/X If you follow the Trump

Call it what it is: a heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in particular—amount to

Since Trump began his war on Iran, there have been a number of occasions where the price of oil futures tumbles just before Trump issues one of his “peace