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Blink Twice and the Problem With #MeToo Thrillers

Adrian Horton The Guardian
Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment

The 2024 Democratic Convention: More 1964 Than 1968

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
The media kept comparing this year’s DNC to Chicago 1968. But given the party’s rejection of the Uncommitted movement, Atlantic City 1964, when Democrats refused to seat Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, is more apt.

Polling Shows Voters Want To See Action on Corporate Power

Luke Goldstein The American Prospect
Despite these detractors’ claims, a new polling survey commissioned by More Perfect Union and provided exclusively to the Prospect finds that the populist messaging Harris has leaned into is good politics.

Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola

Marion Nestle https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/08/weekend-reading-soda-science/
This book reveals the work of the International Life Sciences Institute funded by Coca-Cola
This book reveals the work of the International Life Sciences Institute funded by Coca-Cola

Say It to My Face

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
How Democrats learned to tell the plain truth and like it