When he was 19 years old, still eons away from the essays, the novels, and the pseudonym that would grant him literary immortality, Eric Arthur Blair went east and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. The country was still under British colonial rule — “an outpost of empire” — …
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Back in 1940, Charlie Chaplin made a movie called The Great Dictator, a comedy about fascism. In it, he plays a Hitler-like character named Adenoid Hynkel, the authoritarian leader of an imaginary country called Tomainia. As parodies go, this one was relatively direct: There was a Goebbels character, a Göring …
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As the entertainment community rallies behind Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of ABC’s sudden yanking of his late-night show at the behest of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, pressing questions remain about his immediate future on the network. Namely, whether the show’s upcoming residency at the Brooklyn Academy of …
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Fans of Bad Bunny were confused about why the musician left the continental United States off his upcoming Debí Tirar Más Fotos world tour. In an interview with i-D published Wednesday, the singer said the decision was tied to the Trump administration’s recent mass deportations targeting Latinos. When asked by …
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Sworn enemies Bruce Springsteen and President Donald Trump were both on hand Sunday in New York City to watch the men’s finals at the U.S. Open. The outing marked the first time the singer and president had been in the same place since their public sparring earlier this summer. The …
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More than three years after prediction-market startup Polymarket was blocked in the U.S. as part of a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for failing to register as a derivatives trading platform, the company announced it had found a path back into the country. “Polymarket has acquired QCEX, a …
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O n the morning of June 7, a California State Assemblyman named José Luis Solache Jr. posted a video to his Instagram account of a phalanx of Customs and Border Patrol vehicles congregated across the street from a Home Depot in Paramount, California, a small city in Los Angeles County …
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There was every reason to assume that Elon Musk would vote for and potentially endorse Donald Trump during the 2024 election season. By the time the campaign entered its summer stretch, the tech billionaire had already spent months posting on X, his social media platform, about his slide to the …
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For a supposed democracy that prides itself on the principle of free speech, the United States hasn’t done a great job of protecting that right in recent years. Speaking out on hot-button issues can cost you a job offer or a college diploma. Protesting government policies in the streets (or …
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The Trump administration is once again targeting LGBTQ+ youth —this time by ending the contract between LGBTQ+ nonprofit group The Trevor Project and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. A suicide prevention nonprofit, the Trevor Project was founded in 1998 to address the …
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