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Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil.

In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions. Food waste accounts for as much as 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the HBO/Sky drama, is a twist on its familiar neo-noir mystery format, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as the lead detectives. It’s the first time women have been at the show’s helm.

Mississippi poet Juliet Hinton writes of her dreams fulfilled, thanks to a good education.

This book is a liberal analysis and critique of fascism. Reviewer Shaw offers a critique.

As the horror continues and multiplies in Palestine/Gaza we are all trying to arm ourselves with as many historical facts as possible to try to understand the complicated history of the Middle East, specifically Palestinian/Jewish relations.

Governments around the world market influence through food. However, the way food is associated with identity, combined with diplomacy’s pursuit of the national interest, means gastrodiplomacy will always have at least a tinge of nationalism.

For Native Americans there is something also familiar about Maya’s interactions with family and friends, with the way the community speaks to each other, and the sense that distance doesn’t mean separation. ‘Indian humor’ is prevalent throughout.

War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.

The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions four authors explore in three new books. Their answers will surprise you, as they surprised me.