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Other rightwingers piled on Cruz's criticism of Big Bird: ‘Brainwashing children’

Minneapolis poet/lawyer Michel Steven Krug captures the uneasy mood of these political times, the degradation of democracy, its vulnerability.

Rooney examines meaning, art, friendship, and the price of fame through the story of two couples.

The new Showtime documentary 'Attica' covers the 1971 Attica uprising. Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks to Jacobin about the revolt and the state massacre that slaughtered prisoners and ended a movement for human dignity.

Upside Foods, which cannot yet legally sell its cultured meat, is ready to grow chicken for the masses, up to 400,000 pounds yearly.

Yellowstone is a ranch-set Succession, with murder, Kevin Costner, and red-state America’s blind spots.

Simon Baena’s homage to the Spanish Republic reflects the continuing grief of the lost anti-fascist cause of the 1930s.

Reviewer Foley discusses a new examination of the "professional managerial class." The book's publisher calls this book "an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits."

Karloff Wasn’t The ‘Only One’ Who ‘Saw The Worth’ In Having a Union In The Workplace, Dracula Star Bela Lugosi Was Also ‘Pro-Union’ - Karloff & Lugosi Both Actively Organized Sets & Convincingly ‘Made the Case’ for Actors to ‘Go Union’

For more than nine thousand years, figs have been a keystone species, a critical component of the food web. Twelve hundred different kinds of animals depend on them.