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In January Russia banned “The Death of Stalin". This may have been the first time in post-Soviet history a movie that had already been granted permission to screen was pulled from theatres by order of the government. What made the film so dangerous?

Administration proposals about changes to the SNAP food program received harsh criticism from a wide variety of experts. Michel Nischan, founder of Wholesome Wave, discusses problems with the new proposals.

A decade ago, The Wire series finale aired. The show was a Marxist's idea of what TV drama should be.

How bad is bad? asks the poet Jennifer Michael Hecht, in this wrenching ballad of worse to worst.

On the 50th anniversary of G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America, the author and 11 others take stock of the book’s findings about class and power in the United States, focusing on the drive to privatize public schools, extend power abroad...

Yascha Mounk argues that democracy and liberalism are not synonymous and counsels Americans to look to the examples of Hungary, India and Turkey.

Professor responsible for concept spotlighted in McDormand’s acceptance speech tells the Guardian how it can boost diversity.

The recently published Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (“PURE”) study made headlines about the conventional wisdom on fats and carbs, but several methodological problems cast doubt on its conclusions.

Atlanta doesn't run on its ability to make you tune in to see what happens. It's a show about hustle; if it ever really stops being about hustle, that's likely to be just another vignette about a sudden windfall. For now, it runs on its ability to place you in a particular moment and depict the feeling of it with great precision in whatever way works best.

Inspired by student outrage at the link between politicians and the National Rifle Association, the poet find hope in the no-longer-so-innocent next generation.