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October 26, 2017
Jeet Heer
When the “Weinstein Effect” Hits Washington
A wave of sexual misconduct revelations has sparked a cultural rebellion. But a political agenda is needed to effect lasting change.
October 13, 2017
Jeet Heer
Hollywood’s Inequality Enabled Harvey Weinstein
Abuse flourishes in hierarchical milieus like the film industry. Only democratic counter-institutions can stop it.
October 12, 2017
Jeet Heer
Bret Stephens’s “defense” of Harvey Weinstein is ignorant of Hollywood’s history.
October 10, 2017
Sarah Jones
Hollywood’s superficial politics enabled Harvey Weinstein.
August 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Wind River Reveals the Tricky Politics of Feeling Bad for Cops
The disturbing new film shows how Hollywood uses white women to generate empathy for the police.
January 11, 2017
Jeet Heer
Democrats Should Run a Celebrity for President, Too
It worked for Republicans—twice. And charismatic candidates like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton don't appear every four years.
November 10, 2016
Sarah Jones
Hillary Clinton’s Celebrity Feminism Was a Failure
Her reliance on Hollywood endorsements reflected a deeper problem in the Democratic Party: superficial progressivism packaged as real social justice.
August 9, 2016
Laura Goode
In Equity, Women’s Greed is Good
An interview with the film’s director and screenwriter about female ambition, Wall Street, and Hillary Clinton.
May 27, 2016
Joanna Scutts
The Depression Era’s Magic Bullet For Weight Loss
The most effective diet pill of the twentieth century helped thousands of people lose weight—by boiling them from the inside.
April 21, 2016
Mark Braude
The Making of a Hollywood Princess
Sixty years ago, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a wedding conceived, designed, and directed by MGM studios.
March 16, 2016
Elaine Teng
Why Is It Still Okay to Make Fun of Asians?
It shouldn't be. Here's how to defeat Hollywood's racist stereotypes.
March 15, 2016
Elaine Teng
Ang Lee, Sandra Oh, and George Takei protest the Oscars’ Asian jokes.
February 24, 2016
Esther Breger
Eva Longoria, America Ferrara, and Jimmy Smits were all told by casting directors that they needed “Latino accents.”
February 24, 2016
James Lardner
The Dalton Trumbo I Knew
The Oscar-nominated film revives the boisterous screenwriter—and my own family’s experience with the Hollywood Blacklist.
February 3, 2016
Esther Breger
Ryan Murphy has pledged to hire more directors who aren’t straight white men.
January 29, 2016
Esther Breger
The “Hollywood Blackout” at the 1996 Academy Awards
When "People" magazine took aim at diversity among the nominees, celebrities were unwilling to join the protest.
January 22, 2016
Esther Breger
Julie Delpy is seemingly unaware that black women exist.
December 30, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Best Scenes of Women in the Movies This Year
The frank, eye-opening moments that made this a landmark year for women on film.
December 23, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The first rule of writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official is you can’t talk about writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official.
December 11, 2015
Tom Rice
How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America

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