Yes, We Should Still Defund the Police

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington The Progressive
A social safety net does a better job of achieving a more harmonious society than thousands of assault weapons and armored vehicles. Police reduction should become the American way. 

For Soviet Filmmakers, There Was No Glory in War

Greg Afinogenov Jacobin
The Soviet experience of Nazi invasion inspired many powerful works of cinema. Soviet filmmakers avoided triumphalist images of warfare, depicting the conflict as a brutal necessity that should never be repeated.

After the Press Conference

Hayden Saunier Vox Populi
“Truth is we know when someone’s lying,” says the poet Hayden Saunier about some press conference. Then what do we do about it?

A Crime On The Bayou (2021) | Trailer

Attorney Richard Sobol stands up to a racist legal system to defend Gary Duncan, a Black teenager wrongfully accused of assaulting a boy in 1966 New Orleans. In select theaters now.