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Film Review: James Gunn’s Superman

Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.

Health Insurers Push Huge Premium Hikes

Veronica Riccobene, Helen Santoro The Lever
Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

Electrodomestico

Prartho Sereno
Marin County poet Prartho Sereno meditates on the ironic response of her mother's generation to the promises of technology.

80 Years After Trinity

Eric Ross TomDispatch
In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.

Trump Can Hurt PBS and NPR, but He Can’t Kill Them

Josef Adalian New York Magazine
Killing funding to CPB is expected to have devastating effects for many public radio and TV stations. CPB grants keep smaller stations — including many in Trump-loving rural America — afloat.