This book explores how social identities of various kinds have spurred the divisiveness of our politics, and how politics has itself become a kind of social identity.
No ordinary cop show, The Shield starred the LAPD’s corrupt anti-gang unit, which itself functioned and behaved like a gang. The show vividly captured the failures of American policing that would animate the George Floyd protests 20 years later.
When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the U. S. would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.
Maddow's new book surveys pre-WW II fascism in the United States, including the well-known figures in public life who sympathized with or were otherwise associated with the movement.
The history and thought of the artist Anselm Kiefer is threaded throughout this exceptional documentary from Wim Wenders.
The world’s first Ohlone restaurant closed after a one-
year pilot. Now it’s coming back
Oops, they did it again (weaponized the desperation of the proletariat for fun).
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