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Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy

In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.
external linkhttps://newyorker.com/news/the-lede…
 

David Hockney Just Keeps Painting

As he prepares for the most comprehensive exhibition of his career, the 87-year-old legendary artist opens up about aging, iPhone art, and the unstoppable urge to create.
external linkhttps://wmagazine.com/culture/david…
 

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniser
external linkhttps://theguardian.com/books/2025/…
 

The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard

The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.
external linkhttps://newyorker.com/books/under-r…
 

Pedro Lemebel, a Radical Voice for Calamitous Times

Lemebel’s writing was entirely focussed on those living on the farthest margins of society—people escaping the norms and seen as different.
external linkhttps://newyorker.com/books/page-tu…
 

Richard Florida Wants to Talk About the “Creator Economy”

Twenty years ago I was able to make the case for the creative class, but it’s been much harder to talk to people, whether they’re in the business, urbanist, or university communities, about the importance of the creator economy. Most still don’t get it.
external linkhttps://commonedge.org/richard-flor…
 

Learning from Park Planned Homes

Kate Wolf considers Gregory Ain’s Altadena housing development in the wake of the Los Angeles fires.
external linkhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article…
 

Should We View Tatlin as a Russian Constructivist or a Ukrainian?

In “Tatlin: Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one—is Volodymyr, not Vladimir.
external linkhttps://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
 

Leigh And Me

For you fans of Leigh Bowery.
external linkhttps://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
 

Casa O, Enrique Olvera

And a paradise I had never seen.
external linkhttps://apartamentomagazine.com/sto…
 

Five Bridges

A local (sort of) story by Colm Toibin.
external linkhttps://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
 

Cy Twombly

For you Twombly fans a wonderful succinct review of the current Gagosian show.
external linkhttps://brooklynrail.org/2025/03/ar…
 

Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline

President’s bullying of allies yields symbolic results—but betrays substantive weakness.
external linkhttps://thenation.com/article/world…
 

The Importance of Cultivating Empathy in Design Education

What’s so special about February?” I recently asked my graduate design studio class. “Shortest month?” “GroundHog Day?” “Valentine’s Day?” “It’s Black History Month!” was the answer I was looking for.
external linkhttps://commonedge.org/the-importan…
 

Silicon Wadi, Silicon Desert

For 45 years, Intel has innovated and invested in Arizona, helping to grow an ecosystem of innovation now known around the world as the Silicon Desert.
external linkhttps://averyreview.com/issues/70/s…
 

Existential Action Thriller

A documentary about the artist Heidi Schwegler.
external linkhttps://vimeo.com/925952688/1010b70…
 

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

In the depths of the AIDS epidemic, San Francisco activists transformed a downtown SRO into a center for health care and community life. The residential hotel became a model of queer kinship.
external linkhttps://placesjournal.org/article/a…
 

The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
external linkhttps://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
 

The Dubious Return of the Brutalists

Why the stark 20th-century architectural style is back in vogue.
external linkhttps://thenation.com/article/cultu…
 

Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies

If the strategy of reciprocity made it possible to survive the disaster of colonialism, it could also be a response that makes non-capitalist technological innovation possible.
external linkhttps://guernicamag.com/inventing-t…
 

Building the Corporate Menace of Severance

Saarinen’s impeccable Bell Labs campus conveys the terror of utopian office design.
external linkhttps://curbed.com/2025/01/apple-tv…
 

L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It

The two ends of Los Angeles’ Cultural Crescent—formed by the majestic Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains and their foothills, which ring the northern end of the great L.A. Basin—are gone.
external linkhttps://commonedge.org/l-a-s-cultur…
 

Resident Aliens

Non-indigenous plants flourish in artist William Kentridge’s sprawling garden in Johannesburg, where he has built a clay-brick studio amid the rocky topography. And no wonder – the varied landscape and diverse flora are fertile ground for his latest work.
external linkhttps://worldofinteriors.com/story/…
 

The Anti-Social Century

Dear Friends, I think you can read this with a free trial...
external linkhttps://theatlantic.com/magazine/ar…
 

A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction

What if the housing crisis wasn’t about the cost of lumber, labor, or land, but about bureaucracy?
external linkhttps://commonedge.org/a-radical-an…
 

In the Wake of the Water

A Climate Dispatch from the Suburbs: "I woke up this morning, and I couldn’t believe the sand was gone."
external linkhttps://placesjournal.org/article/i…