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With its starchy girl-power message and Meryl Streepish prestige, Little Women is bound to be a hot contender for critics’ awards, Oscars, and Golden Globes. But don’t be fooled: it’s a bad movie.

Andre goes to trial in Massachusetts on Tuesday for charges stemming from an August 2018 protest calling for Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson to end an agreement allowing his deputies to act as U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement Officers

The assassination only fortifies the Iranian strategist’s legacy as a counterweight to U.S. power. ‘He is as much a product as a producer’ of the decades-long conflict.

In 1901, William Trotter founded an other Guardian – the Boston Guardian – to ‘hold a mirror up to nature’. We could use something similar today, writes Kerri Greenidge

Collaboration with academia and, often, technology companies is essential in working together to advance the cause of food and water security around the world.

Strategy entails applying tactics to win in a campaign or on a front. But grand strategy involves winning the entire war—and creating a post-war world that is most advantageous.

U.S. “Plans” for the Afghan War Might Prove a Crime Against Humanity.

We need to act now and act fast… and do more than we’ve done before to fill the streets in broad anti-war protests and pressure our members of Congress.

Historically, the government has used the (grand jury) process to gather information, surveil and disrupt movements by creating paranoia and fear.

The Mandalorian is uninterested in diapers, and so Mando gets to be a very particular image of fatherhood: the guy who doesn’t have to sweat the small stuff. It’s wish fulfillment, a fantasy of parenting stripped of all detail and specificity.