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Football’s governing body, FIFA, won’t even stand up for players, referees, and fans who are being harassed by the US authorities. It’s no surprise FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has also offered his services to help whitewash Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On the hundredth birthday of Allen Ginsberg, poet William Berkowitz reminds us that before there was the poet who wrote HOWL, there was his father, Louis Ginsberg, the poet who wrote the poet who wrote HOWL.

A portrait of life in the Iranian capital through the months leading up to the war, and in the first weeks under the Israeli and U.S. "Operation Epic Fury".

In his new book, Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of the “phenomenon in which people from marginalized populations amass power not by uplifting people from the communities they come from, but by collectively cracking the of their own.”

Two indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic creativity à la the New Hollywood era are overblown.

The Trump administration is urging Americans to eat more "real" food but has cut funding for schools to buy minimally processed foods from local farmers. USDA ended $660 million for Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS).

The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.

Poet Lucille Lang Day confronts the losses suffered by people and animals resulting from the colonization of California by Europeans.

This is a conservative defense of the Western Tradition against its progressive critics, the book a well-researched and engaging – if unmistakably political – narrative history of Western civilization.

Backrooms brings liminal horror to the masses, and with it, a generation looking for a past that might not exist