Yesterday I blogged about a video "Scraping By: Portraits of Life during the Great Recession," by filmmaker Stewart Thorndike, which documents a tent city for the homeless and unemployed on the ...

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Who can forget the profound desperation in Tom Joad’s heart as he and his family leave Oklahoma’s drought-stricken farms in John Steinbeck’s classic "The Grapes of Wrath?" That dusty image — of ...

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“The border between the States and Mexico is not a borderline. It is a scar,” Bruce Springsteen explains, quoting Carlos Fuentes from the stage, near the end of his March 19, 1996 performance in ...

The fist-pumping rock 'n' roll that had roused arenas and stadiums around the world for the past 20 years was now replaced by acoustic guitars, muted synthesizer washes, brushed drums and hushed ...

Bruce Springsteen is nicknamed “the Boss” for a reason. He became inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and even created a podcast with Former President Barack Obama, Renegades: Born in the USA.

Bruce Springsteen admits the '90s were his "lost period." "I didn't do a lot of work. Some people would say I didn't do my best work," he told Rolling Stone in 2009. And it's true. That decade ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. From reader Amit Routh: As someone who loves both Springsteen and song ...