Culture | Opinion

When art changes opinions or opens hearts, it changes the world as profoundly as any legislation does.

By Margaret Renkl

Politics has become so much like entertainment that the first thing we do to make sense of the moment is to test it against a sitcom.

By Armando Iannucci

We don’t let preadolescent kids work. Why do we let them appear in the most high-pressure athletic contests on a global stage?

By Linda Flanagan

The streaming era turned on a fire hose of content that’s drowning viewers. We need TV that feels created by humans, not served up by an algorithm.

By Priyanka Mattoo

She may yet add to her impressive Olympic legacy in Paris. But by changing the way we talk about mental health, Simone Biles has scored a different victory.

By Julie Kliegman

Disaster movies make for thrilling blockbusters. But the reality of a changing climate is slow-motion tragedy, broken bureaucracy and lingering tedium.

By Chris Vognar

Gen X’s quintessential bad girl was never really all that bad.

By Jennifer Weiner

Exactly what the vice-presidential candidate has renounced in exchange for power is in the public record for all to see.

By Ed Simon

The notion that you, too, can rise from the Barrio to Hollywood through sheer grit doesn’t speak to a generation disillusioned with the myth of meritocracy.

By Yarimar Bonilla

A fiction writer challenges an A.I. chatbot to a duel.

By Curtis Sittenfeld