Noah Berlatsky

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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