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Culture wars turning from cold to hot

Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era — the perfect setting for downwardly mobile 2025

Every liberal justice on the Supreme Court issued a scathing dissent in the decision to let ICE resume its racial-profiling tactics.

Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and death

A Plan to Rebuild New York’s Labor Movement.

This is a betrayal of history’s fundamental purpose: to learn from the past. If we ever aspire to become one nation, the entirety of our past, including the enslavement of an estimated 10 million people, must be acknowledged as our shared history.

Starvation in the Midst of Plenty: Deadly Landlordism During the Potato Famine in Ireland

The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.

The pomegranate shows a marked versatility in its cultural connotations and connections.

“Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dangerous and harmful to the District and its residents. It’s D.C. today but could be any other city tomorrow."