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Elizabeth Moss and Dominic West star in a satire on pretension and privilege.

Why the government goes easy on corporate crime.

Pamela Adlon’s "Better Things" has reinvented the family sitcom.

The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.

Jennifer Egan disconnects from the fractured nature of modern life.

Putin’s foreign policy is rooted in an epic myth of betrayal and redemption.

“The Seventh Function of Language” is a whodunit set among French intellectuals.

The '50s noir novelist investigated sources of rot in the American grain.

A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.

"The Deuce" refuses to glamorize '70s New York.

“The Unknown Girl” examines a middle-class liberal’s dilemma.

Does "Pride and Prejudice" contain subversive political messages?

How the aspirational class expresses its status in an age of inequality.

What the rise of populist movements means for democracy.

How the divide between rich and poor has undermined the Constitution.

David Lynch wanted to create a small-town Marilyn Monroe. He came up with Laura Palmer.

The spirit of wounded masculinity haunts America in 'A Ghost Story.'

The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.

How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.