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Private equity and monopoly capitalists will destroy anything to make a buck, and they’ve turned their sights on TV and film. If you hated cable’s high prices, endless ads, and copycat programming, you’re going to loathe the future of streaming.

Poet Sam Friedman brings us back to the walls around Gaza before the after.

Reviewers Ray and Wranovics call this book "a welcome contribution, and hopefully an opening towards further study of this significant and neglected part of California history."

Anchor Brewing is more than just a beloved institution in this city. It’s the very myth of San Francisco in a bottle. It’s a relic of the Gold Rush, a harbinger of the it-happened-here-first innovation that our region hopes to be known for.

HBO’s new miniseries centers Vietnamese voices — and reframes the consequences of war.

For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.

A collection of essays by Raphael Samuel, the late historian who was one of the intellectual founders of the New Left in the United Kingdom.

To prepare for upcoming years-long voyages, NASA has a new game plan for getting fresh food to the moon and beyond.

Bridgerton’s third season is gauzier than ever. Should we still be holding it accountable?

The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.