That is precisely what is occurring as James Gunn’s new “Superman” movie takes flight into cinemas, remembering a risky notion: Superman as the best immigrant, the champion of niceness, and a symbol ...

American culture is a mix of influences, values, contradictions, and creativity. From its diverse roots and regional quirks to its global pop culture power, the U.S. has built a cultural identity ...

What Porn Did to American Culture. Sophie Gilbert discusses how the industry defined womanhood, sex, and power. By Stephanie Bai. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources.

In the past 20 years, our pop art has lost some crucial pleasure node. It has popped less often, less brightly. The trash urge is now the superhero urge, and the crusades don’t necessarily ...

What this icon has meant to American culture. Phaedra Trethan. USA TODAY. Hear this story. She walked, on tiptoes and in stilettos, into our collective consciousness on March 9, 1959.

There is no perfect definition of Black American culture. While many Black Americans stick to their American roots, others prefer following their African ancestry.

Changing American Culture. Changing American culture to incorporate values of social solidarity is an enormous mandate that must overcome centuries of embedded racism, class antagonism, and a myth ...

A cultural phenomenon himself. The president’s interest in American culture aligns with his own backstory – first as an aspiring Broadway producer and, over time, as a cultural phenomenon himself.

Lesson Plan: Baseball and American Culture. Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5 Clip 6 Clip 7 Clip 8 Clip 9 Clip 10 Clip 11 Clip 12 Clip 13 Clip 14 Clip 15 Clip 16. Baseball and Childhood.

The gambit of Stanford literature professor Adrian Daub’s clarifying new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, is the contention that, in fact, we don’t really ...

The choice between what is right and what is easy takes center stage in the 1986 American crime film River’s Edge, which positions a group of teens with an impossible decision from which ...

But really–who is your daddy?. Phillip Maciak teaches literature and American studies at Washington University in St. Louis and pens TV criticism for The New Republic, but his current academic ...