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Meet a surprisingly influential woman you’ve likely never heard of.

Noah Baumbach and George Clooney’s Jay Kelly is a Netflix dramedy about the death of Hollywood stardom and the theatrical experience. Ironically, with Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros., the call is definitely coming from inside the house.

Breaking the ICE

Actor and director of a string of hit films including The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men.

On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did.

The Trump administration has excluded nurses from a key loan program designed to help those with professional degrees. This puts all Americans seeking care at increased risk and further harms our broken healthcare system.

Larry Summers has been forced to step back from public life after revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. His moment of disgrace comes after decades of work promoting economic policies that have had a devastating impact on countless people.

It’s the anti-worker politicians who voted in favor of HB 267 that are now empty handed: Last week, they were forced to repeal the very law they had approved.

Europe needs to finally seize the initiative and stop wasting time trying to manage Trump. It is time for Europe to formulate clear conditions under which real negotiations to end Russia's war in Ukraine can take place.

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.