Culture

Nick Kyrgios: The Donald Trump of Tennis

Gabriel Kuhn September 13, 2024
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The Romantic Body Behind the Redwood Curtain

David Yearsley September 13, 2024
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Kind of Blue: Still on the Job at 65

David Yearsley September 6, 2024

Break on Through: Finding The Doors

Tony McKenna August 30, 2024

Towards A New History of Venetian Art

David Carrier August 30, 2024

Necessity Drives Us Together

Patrick Mazza August 30, 2024
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Bill-Bored and Sha-Boozing

David Yearsley August 30, 2024

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

Steve O’Keefe August 30, 2024

Bedeviled Democratic Song

David Yearsley August 23, 2024

A Punk Rock Paean

Ron Jacobs August 17, 2024

Lewis Lapham, a Prince of American Letters and Traitor to His Class

Mark Medish August 12, 2024

Conscience of the Blues: How Howlin’ Wolf Got Caged in Oregon

Jeffrey St. Clair August 9, 2024

The 20 Best Energy Films: From Gritty Carbon-Spewing Potboilers to Nuclear Reactor Catastrophes

John K. White August 9, 2024
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Retroactive Update: A New Recording of Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard

David Yearsley August 9, 2024

Pedro Rios Martinez’s Visual Conversation

Jimmy Centeno August 9, 2024

Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets

Tony McKenna August 7, 2024

Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Records of the Year So Far

Jeffrey St. Clair August 7, 2024

The Folly of Atomic Power

Ron Jacobs August 2, 2024

Olympian Water Music

David Yearsley August 2, 2024
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The Political Lyre

David Yearsley July 26, 2024

Hymn from Hell:  Greenwood Burns for Trump

David Yearsley July 19, 2024

Rocco Schavone: Italy’s Red Hot Cop in Ice Cold Murders 

Jonah Raskin July 18, 2024
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Practicing the Past

David Yearsley July 12, 2024

How Science Fiction Can Inspire Climate Activism

Katherine Dolan July 5, 2024

Gilded Age Organ Riches From Long A. G. O. and Last Week

David Yearsley July 5, 2024

Architecture of Cities: the Irony of Bears

Richard Schulman July 5, 2024

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned Over U.S. Policy Towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

CounterPunch News Service July 2, 2024

Kinky Friedman, the Abbie Hoffman of Country Music

Jonah Raskin July 1, 2024

Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life”

James Bovard June 28, 2024
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Partenope by the Bay: Handel in San Francisco

David Yearsley June 28, 2024

Feedback Dope

Sumana Roy June 23, 2024
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Changed Circumstances: Out with Elgar’s Pomp

David Yearsley June 21, 2024

Mr. Consistency: An Hommage

Peter A. Coclanis June 18, 2024

It Must be High or Low

Ron Jacobs June 15, 2024
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Sex, Death and Manuscripts: Anna Magdalena Bach Rises from the Dead

David Yearsley June 14, 2024

Richard Valdes Steps Out of a Dream

Jimmy Centeno June 14, 2024

Why Are We Kafkaesque?

Monika Zgustova May 31, 2024

No One’s Neutral Come Eurovision Time

David Yearsley May 17, 2024

René Moncada: The Provocateur Artist Defying the Art World

Cesar Chelala May 8, 2024

Has the War Against Palestine Killed Jewish Comedy?

Stephen F. Eisenman May 3, 2024

Caravaggio/Andy Warhol/Keith Haring: Three Cases of Radical Innovation

David Carrier May 3, 2024
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The Three Bs: Borden, Burney, and Baseball

David Yearsley May 3, 2024

Witch Trial in Oklahoma: How the Prosecutorial Slut-Shaming of Brenda Andrew Put Her on Death Row

Jeffrey St. Clair April 26, 2024

The Oppenheimer Omission

Gray Brechin April 26, 2024
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On the Road with Sasquatch

David Yearsley April 26, 2024

Sounding Out O.J.

David Yearsley April 19, 2024
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Beach Art, Water Music

David Yearsley April 12, 2024

Cute: From Hello Kitty to Sexual Subculture

Charles Thomson April 12, 2024

The Architecture of Cities: Past and Futures

Richard Schulman April 12, 2024

My Holy War with the Catholic Church

Nicky Reid April 12, 2024