Noah Berlatsky

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.