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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.

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

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.

These efforts will backfire on the right—but produce a lot of suffering along the way.

A settlement doesn’t make all the other revelations go away, no matter how much money it is.

Banks across the country have been targeted by union organizers. The Communication Workers of America union has been working for a decade to establish a foothold among workers such as tellers and personal bankers.

The Second Amendment was intended in the first instance to protect slaveholders from the people they owned.

After the pandemic decimated the child care industry, parents are now routinely waiting years for care and doing anything they can to get off a waitlist.

Raising the retirement age isn’t just about having the “best years of retirement be stolen,” as French protesters have warned. It’s about fairness and not putting years more of the nation’s labor burden on the working class. Next time the government moves to raise the retirement age, we should follow the French example to protest and proclaim, “It’s a No.”