But Mamdani’s candidacy also has a quality of magic realism, a campaign exuberantly disconnected from actual government budgets and organizational charts. His promises are grand: Freeze rents.

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So the pro-pot movement is in a relatively normal place for an activist movement, with both a reasonable harmony between the popularity of its ideas and the state of its policy advances and also ...

In today's political climate, conspiracy theories are commonplace. But they're nothing new. In the 1960s, the John Birch Society built a movement around them.

Lyrical realism uses beautiful language to describe emotions, desires and observations, integrating flashbacks to vividly evoked and deeply felt pasts that illuminate character and drive plot.

Reem Gaafar combines themes of racism, gender-based violence and oppressive traditions in her compelling book, A Mouth Full of Salt, set in a small village on the Nile in northern Sudan. The title ...

This summer, as you step into the grand halls of Rome's Palazzo Barberini, you'll find yourself amidst "Day for Night: New American Realism," an engaging exhibition that showcases over 150 works ...