Jeva Lange

Culture Critic

Jeva Lange is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She is also a contributor to ScreenSlate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.

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Briefing

What will Russia's Victory Day bring?

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Analysis

The pros and cons of student loan forgiveness

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Opinion

Stadium bag rules are out of control

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Opinion

America ends the pandemic as we began: stupidly

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Jeva Lange

I love cars, but I want higher gas prices right now

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Opinion

The surveillance state won't save you

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Jeva Lange

Why the Clean Water Act no longer holds water

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Jeva Lange

The moral rot of the superyacht

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You've just experienced universal healthcare. Not bad, eh?

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Opinion

Yes means yes, but it doesn't mean good sex

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Opinion

The Big Bad is back

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I knew something was up

There are 5 fewer Doritos per bag now thanks to inflation

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you know it's bad when…

Even the Taliban wants Russia and Ukraine to stop fighting

Moscow police detain an anti-war protester

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No to war

Russian police attempt to silence anti-war protests

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That can't be good

Fighting breaks out near Chernobyl

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying

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BFF breakup?

China squirms as its ally, Russia, marches into Ukraine

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War

Putin meets about gas pipeline amid outbreak of war

People celebrate Russia recognizing Donetsk as independent in eastern Ukraine

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Speed Reads

Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine

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Jeva Lange

The Olympics start this week — and nobody cares

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Opinion

Making the SATs digital won't make them fair

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Opinion

9 books to read in 2022

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Opinion

2021: The year of ____

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Speed Reads

Putin requests Thursday call with Biden amid ongoing Ukraine tensions

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but why is the champagne gone?

Champagne in short supply ahead of New Year's Eve

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Business briefing

The daily business briefing: December 30, 2021

A COVID-testing line in Stamford, Connecticut

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Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: December 30, 2021

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Opinion

The best headlines of 2021

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Opinion

Macbeth is a Christmas movie

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Speed Reads

14-year-old killed in clothing store dressing room by LAPD

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Speed Reads

How to watch the James Webb Space Telescope launch

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a little hypocritical

Vaccine mandate protesters refused entry at Trump Grill

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you better watch out

How the North American Aerospace Defense Command got the job of tracking Santa

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going nowhere fast

Airlines cancel thousands of holiday weekend flights, blaming Omicron

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Another COVID Christmas

1 in 60 Manhattanites reportedly infected with COVID in past week

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Jeva Lange

The absurd future of stadium names

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Opinion

Marvel's Eternals does lazy, box-ticking diversity