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Satirists Are Burned Out. The Satire Stays.
When comedians are too tired to satirize power, the culture finds other containers: reality TV, horror films, and the chronically online.
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Data Centers Are the New Highway Projects
Left and right now agree on one thing: AI data centers are bad neighbors. The backlash reveals infrastructure politics as the new culture war front.
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Art Erased, Art Restored, Art Exiled
A Pinochet-erased Chilean mural resurfaces, a Cuban dissident artist is freed to Miami, and a Philly Keith Haring faces uncertain protection. Erasure is never permanent.
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The Smithsonian as Battlefield, Museums as Mirrors
The White House's 162-page assault on the Smithsonian is not about history. It's about who gets to narrate the present.
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The Studio as a Safe Space for Stupidity
William Kentridge's essay on his studio and the Met's Raphael show, read together, make the same argument: creative space is where bad ideas get their due.
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Dead Stars: How Art Diagnoses the Body Politic
Botticelli's Venus hid a fatal tumor. Trump's reflecting pool turned green. Both are art objects that reveal hidden pathology in plain sight.
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Trillion-Dollar Man, Zero Accountability
SpaceX goes public the same day Section 702 dies. The richest man alive just got richer while the law watching him expired.
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Institutions at the Breaking Point
The New School lays off 90 people, the Kennedy Center fights Trump's control, and a constitutional scholar warns democracy wasn't built for AI. Everything is structurally failing at once.
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The Body in Pain as Brand Architecture
The Rafa Netflix doc and Trump's UFC birthday spectacle reveal that pain, performed correctly, has become the most durable form of personal branding.
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AI in Congress, AI in Your Feed, Same Fight
A congressional primary becomes an OpenAI vs Anthropic proxy war while The Atlantic asks if you even like that song or just think you do.
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Venice Is on Strike. Art Can't Be Neutral.
A 24-hour strike, a resigned jury, and legal threats from an Israeli pavilion artist collapse the fiction that art exists outside geopolitics.
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Betting on War: When Markets Price the Unthinkable
Event wagering on the Iran conflict hit $143M in insider-trade allegations. Prediction markets are now the most honest, and most dangerous, pricing mechanism for geopolitical risk.
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Tech Bros at the Throne: Power's New Court
Zuckerberg texting Musk about DOGE. xAI co-founders fleeing. The court politics of Silicon Valley now look indistinguishable from actual statecraft.
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Art That Refuses to Be Cancelled
Gabrielle Goliath's banned Gaza show finds a Venice venue anyway, while protest sign craft gets its cultural moment. Refusal is having a season.
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