Noah Berlatsky

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.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.