Congress to vote on the Music Modernization Act
If the bill passes, it will attempt to correct the discrepancies in compensation that came about as digital music platforms emerged.
Why didn’t we learn from Anita Hill? Like the scandal 30 years ago, professor accuses Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault
The U.S. Supreme Court should hold itself to higher standards as Kavanaugh's nomination hangs in the balance.
Trump dips in the polls as his job growth promises come through for barristers and bartenders
Across an 18-month period, from Jan 2017 to June 2018, jobs in the food and drink sector grew by 5.6 percent.
Russia continues to crackdown on dissent
Two members of Pussy Riot were detained by police in Moscow, as a music industry insider revealed he was paid $30,000 to start a rap...
How Hungary’s far-right government is curtailing culture
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s far-right party has banned skyscrapers, wants to withdraw funding for gender studies from a university, and even criticized a Frida Kahlo...
Not just relegated to politics, Russian bots are now undermining vaccines
A new piece of research from George Washington University shows that social media bots and Russian trolls have also been used to spread false information...
Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important?
Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explores where the democratization of information and freedom of choice turn sour for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.
Anthony Kennedy’s retirement is about to shift the status quo
The future of the highest court in the land may take an even grimmer shift to the right.
New York’s tepid slog towards legalizing marijuana is killing our vibe
While state-wide legalization of weed seems inevitable, recent announcements on drug enforcement policies by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio are as tepid...
Facing the future with some of activism’s newest faces
Thousands of teens from across the country descended upon #TurnUp, an activism summit hosted by The New School this past weekend to make clear that...
Juliana Huxtable and Stuart Comer on the new politics of trans visibility in the social media age
The artist and downtown 'It Girl' speaks with the MoMA curator about the fine line between transgender visibility and commercial exploitation for Document Spring/Summer 2016.
Designer Milton Glaser still loves New York City, after all these years
The Bronx native behind one of the world's most famous logos discusses the city that, to him, is brimming with endless possibilities to unlock the...
Two modern nations are still terrified of a woman’s right to choose
The uncertainty surrounding Ireland's referendum over a 35-year-old abortion ban grows, while the United States, this week, proposed one of the most strict abortion rules...
Saudi Arabia arrests women’s rights activists ahead of driving ban being lifted
One month before the ban is set to lift, 13 activists were arrested at their homes.
The suburbs are the frontlines of America’s mass shootings
According to a new report from the Associated Press, all but one of the ten deadliest school shootings in the U.S. have occurred in some of...
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asia Kate Dillon on the fine art of creative survival
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter sits down with the 'Billions' actor to discuss the responsibilities of artistry and the present-day struggle over language.
A closer look at Ai Weiwei’s selfie with the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant party
The Chinese-born dissident artist has long used social media as an artistic medium, so how are we to interpret his recent selfie with one of...
Why has South Korea suddenly paused the K-Pop blaring across the DMZ?
South Korea's decades-long aural assault on North Korea has suddenly gone quiet.
Cynthia Nixon is pulling Andrew Cuomo’s strings
After the actress-turned-gubernatorial hopeful announced her proposal to legalize marijuana, last week, guess who followed suit?
Novelists Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith on writing in a distracting political present
The novelists, famous for addressing the trauma of the present and the past in their work, seek to harness the energy of uncompromised political beliefs.
“What is an artist’s responsibility?” Introducing Document S/S 2018
With the release of Document No. 12, our Editor-in-Chief & Creative Director Nick Vogelson looks at how the changing of the artist's role in culture...
The UK and Russia are throwing unprecedented amounts of literary shade at each other
Watch out, Sherlock.
Why does the Trump administration want the Census citizenship question?
Total erasure of immigrant communities.
Why are the attacks on the march for our lives so laughable?
Conservative America is in a panic.
Teen eco-activist Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez and Rosario Dawson sound the environmental alarm
Activists Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez and Rosario Dawson connect over the voices of youth activism, now more integral than ever
The American politics of the radical presidential portrait
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are the latest entries in a visual tradition defining the politics of the present.
Adrift in America
As hyper-media and violence create a dysphoric present, one writer stops to survey our collective unmooring.
Hobby Lobby can’t stop smuggling Mesopotamian artifacts
The Justice Department has requested another 245 artifacts smuggled out of Iraq
The Dutch Fashion Police are scanning the streets for Gucci and Rolex
Police in Rotterdam will soon be on the hunt for “Big Rolexes" and "Gucci jackets"
The #resistance might be great for your career says study
Civic engagement is, unsurprisingly, a good thing for individuals
New York City reviews its “symbols of hate,” removes only one
The statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims will be relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery
CVS bans the airbrush on its beauty products
And introduces the "beauty mark" for brands that retouch
The NYPD is Attempting to Obtain the ‘Entire Digital History’ of a Minor
The department has requested contacts, e-mails, history and other digital documentation
If science fiction reflects our innermost fears, how do we see ourselves today?
Noah Berlatsky explores the parallels between cultural fear and the work of science fiction
Once bulldozed by stereotypes, crossplay is cosplay’s gender revolution
How do you turn what was once demonized into a source of pride and exploration? Matt Baume writes on cosplay's gender defying evolution
Understanding anarchy from ancient Athens to the dark web
If Anarchism has always existed, might it just be a base state of human existence?
Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg Combats A.I.’s Threat to Humanity with His Whiteboard
Dr. Anders Sanberg is looking to save humanity from extinction from an unlikely instigator.
Japanese internment camp survivors reflect on America’s dark past 75 years later
A forgotten and hidden stain on American history, Japanese internment camps were yet another point of damage done to minorities in the U.S.
Burberry’s Christopher Bailey Finds Balance in a Time of Social and Political Uncertainty
As the creative director-turned-C.E.O. of Burberry prepares to step back into the atelier full-time, he reflects on a monumental year of change.
Objects Without Shadows
One of the most historically significant regions in the world is currently being pillaged.
Fallen From Grace, An Exclusive Look at Item Idem’s “NUII”
Two-and-a-half minutes before ultimate global catastrophe, the artist's new short film is a desert wonder that champions against capitalism and President Donald Trump.
DeRay Mckesson and Bevy Smith On Social Championship and Black Identity
From Document No. 9, the activist and pop cultural arbiter discuss public service and life's calling.
Dear Donald, an Assembled Response
A group of artists under the moniker Same Subject New Object in New York gathered in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s operation of social injustice.
Bjarne Melgaard and Glenn O’Brien on Why Art Should Alienate
To celebrate the release of Melgaard's self-titled monograph, Document presents a conversation between the artist and journalist Glenn O'Brien.
A Warning to the World from Antony Micallef
The artist's latest project "Trump Fags," a visual double entente featuring the United States's most malign White House hopeful, feels so decisively pivotal to us...
Douglas Crimp and Malik Gaines on Queer Liberation and the Decline of Radicalism
The cultural critic and artist discuss Crimp's new memoir "Before Pictures" in issue no. 9 of Document.
Singer Anohni tackles speaking out, oppression, and subversion with composer Nico Muhly
The musical artists talk composition, American civic complicity, and "joyful expressions of rage."
