Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."
James Mangold’s biopic "A Complete Unknown" follows the rise of the era-defining star Bob Dylan with Chalamet brilliantly embodying his shapeshifting allure.
Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on something new. Creative workers can still produce fresh ideas, but they’re snuffed out before they get a chance to breathe
Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.
Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.
In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.
Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.
Labor
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?
This year saw some real gains for workers and unions but it may be hard to sustain the momentum in 2025.
Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked off the job starting yesterday, in a major escalation of the Teamsters’ efforts to organize the company. In New York, the strikers faced repression from the police.
3 Million workers will finally get their full Social Security benefits.
Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers AND Starbucks unions strike ahead of holiday.
The president of Canada’s largest labour organization slammed the government for its “misuse” of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code.
From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor admin
Santa and his workshop are, like America, having a bumpy sleigh ride transitioning to the incoming Trump administration. Elon Musk's DOUCHE program makes it worse.
BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage
Written and recorded in 1962 for Bob Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the song famously prophecies dark days. See also the Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown.
And why so many of them are shot in Vancouver.
Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day. #ACompleteUnknown
SCOOP: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike to attempt to win their first union contract right before Christmas — the company's busiest time.
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