The Messy Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Many of us who grew up in America’s middle-class suburbs of the 1950s and ’60s rarely experienced the ideal families encountered on television sitcoms—the Cleavers, Petries, and Father Knows Bests who just didn’t suffer serious emotional conflicts beyond minor disagreements Continue reading The Messy Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

You Won’t Believe the Edits Republicans Are Making to the January 6 Tapes

Republicans are leaving nothing up to interpretation. On Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson unequivocally admitted that the conservative party is doctoring footage of the January 6 insurrection to prevent the identification of the rioters in an investigation by the Justice Department. Continue reading You Won’t Believe the Edits Republicans Are Making to the January 6 Tapes

Tourism Is Destroying Greek Islands. Sifnos Is Making a Survival Plan.

On a warm Saturday evening this July on the Greek island of Sifnos, almost a dozen people sat gossiping and drinking beside a stove oven in the village of Agios Loukas. Every so often, someone arrived to leave a clay Continue reading Tourism Is Destroying Greek Islands. Sifnos Is Making a Survival Plan.