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The Folly of Censoring “Joyland,” a Sublime Film About Family

Mohammed Hanif The New Yorker
A new movie from the director Saim Sadiq, "Joyland", Pakisitan's 2023 Oscar entry, depicts queer love against the backdrop of a Pakistani household and feels as familiar as our families are to us here.The film follows a man who gets a job in a burlesque show and falls in love with a trans woman. Banned in Pakistan, “Joyland” earned accolades at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mass Destruction

Daniel Bessner Boston Review
A Review: Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century, by David Allen, Harvard University Press

You’re Paying Taxes Today. The Rich Aren’t.

Andrew Perez, Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Rebecca Burns Jacobin
Today is Tax Day, the deadline for Americans to pay their taxes. One group that won’t be paying much today: the rich, who have stashed $2 trillion in offshore tax havens.