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Commentary: Mary Tyler Moore taught us to face changing times with joy and spunk
The news Wednesday that Mary Tyler Moore had died at 80 felt like a continuation of the grimmest trends of 2016, the death of important artists precisely at the moment...
Essay: In 2017, spend less time and energy on jerks and hucksters
By Alyssa Rosenberg, The Washington Post Though I'm generally staying away from rigid resolutions for 2017, in the process of planning my coverage for the year, I've reached one conclusion:...
In PG-13 movies, audiences see gunshots — but not the pain that follows
New data published in the journal Pediatrics Wednesday shows that the rate of gun violence per hour in top-grossing PG-13 movies has more than doubled since 1985.
Forget the movie date: Seeing a film is a perfect solo activity
Long before I dreamed of writing about pop culture, I was a fan of the movie date.
2016 was the year that Hollywood got working-class white men right
In 2016, Hollywood turned out three excellent movies about working-class white men that neither classed their characters as deplorables nor responded to them with slavish deference.
This year’s Golden Globe nominations are totally delightful
Awards season can be awfully fraught for critics and fans of pop culture. But in talking to my critic friends, I found that a lot of us share the sense...
Essay: From “Parks and Recreation” to “Hamilton,” pop culture turned from promise to elegy
As a critic, I've spent years writing about the kind of world that pop culture tells us is possible, especially when it comes to visions of social change. On Wednesday,...
Rosenberg: Our gawking at Anthony Weiner reveals something ugly about us
Pushing our noses up against the glass to ogle Anthony Weiner and his sexting problem can be a way to avoid examining our own voyeurism too closely.
Rosenberg: EpiPens are my armor against disaster; they shouldn’t be priced like a luxury
The skyrocketing cost of epinephrine injectors, which counteract a severe allergic attack, has been particularly grotesque for allergy sufferers like me.