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2021: Some bests and worsts in the media world

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy introduced us to a working-class kid from Queens struggling to both save his city and pay the rent. Disney has wealthy new benefactors rewriting just what it means to be a superhero.

World-renowned author, activist and professor Angela Davis talks about the prison abolition movement from her time as a Black Panther leader to today.

In a deal worth millions with Chinese developer Evergrande, a Harvard teaching hospital risked its reputation on what would become a near-empty shell.

Now’s a good a time to look back and ask: What just happened?

There's never been a more important time to look up, wake up, and get active.

Starbucks corporate fought the Buffalo organizing effort. Massachusetts workers are preparing for a similar campaign by Starbucks.

We can’t change the world just by posting on social media. But as the 2018 red state teachers’ strikes show, if organizers make strategic choices about their online organizing, social media can be used to build mass militant actions like strikes.

Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.

The ISS will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere in a few years, paving the way for new businesses in space.