Noah Berlatsky

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

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.

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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