David Masciotra (page 5)

David Masciotra is the author of six books, including "Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy" and "I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters." He has written for the New Republic, Washington Monthly, CrimeReads, No Depression, and many other publications about politics, music and literature.

Donald Trump
Trump's authoritarianism can never be treated like business as usual David Masciotra
Son Volt
Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album David Masciotra
Jussie Smollett; Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett David Masciotra
Donald Trump
Trump's racist delusions and the global threat of white hate David Masciotra
Donald Trump
Can America recover from Trump? A radicalized right wing suggests dangers ahead David Masciotra
Alejandro Escovedo
In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock 'n' roll immigration epic poem David Masciotra
Stephen Markley's "Ohio": This year's "Hillbilly Elegy" of fiction David Masciotra
A Woman Alone
Our loneliness epidemic is a political problem, too David Masciotra
Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin
Writer Greg Olear on "Dirty Rubles": Trump is "gravest existential threat" to America in 150 years David Masciotra
Superstore
We need more working-class TV now: Why won't pop culture reflect American reality? David Masciotra
Kevin Costner as John Dutton in
"Yellowstone," an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner's new Western series David Masciotra
Metallica
Metallica's unlikely origin story: Injecting Americana into the metal universe David Masciotra
Bruce Springsteen
Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer David Masciotra
John Mellencamp
The true art of John Mellencamp: “Grotesquely beautiful” and “never too far from the garage" David Masciotra
Chrissie Hynde
Spend some time "Alone" with Chrissie Hynde, rock 'n roll transcendentalist David Masciotra