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MMA used to be home to oddballs unified by a love of beating each other up inside cages. But since Donald Trump’s first presidency, the UFC has rebranded the sport as a refuge for the “anti-woke sports fan,” while breaking unions and censoring the me

Poet Charlotte Muse knows this life is fleeting, and yet it is the sweetest comfort in the face of political and social chaos.

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope.

Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era.

Food, especially seemingly modest ingredients, is a way to signify wealth and luxury tastes. Fashion and design are an extension of that. Wearing food as a design choice signals both that we have a palate for that product and that we can afford it.

This story from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series is set at PC Zone magazine and thrillingly close to true events at one dingy London office in the 90s

Poet Esther Kamkar unspools the story about the snake and the garden.

An Israeli-American historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies covers the dynamic of a Jewish state that has thrived on Holocaust roots, how that legacy has been exploited becoming an apartheid state, a practitioner of genocide of Palestinians

The Little Tramp’s legal woes were more over-the-top than a Bruckheimer film

In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle.