McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.
As we approach Trump's second inauguration, poet Alison Luterman asks if the patient will survive? The patient is us, the American people.
This review is 20 years old, but it is nevertheless especially relevant to the United States at this political moment.
Poet Elizabeth Scanlon asks "what is this a culture of," and finds the usual answers wanting, leaving it up to the rest of us to make better choices.
Chinese Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.
Proposed language in the House Farm Bill would explicitly introduce political interests to and harm the integrity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—the foundation of school meal programs, SNAP, WIC, and other necessary nutrition programs.
Merging documentary with sci-fi, this new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.
Today's autocracies range “from theocracies to monarchies, that operate more like companies,” united by “a laser-focus on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs."
Poet and scholar Philip C. Kolin offers a succinct overview of the meanings and mis-understandings of the term “Voting Rights.”
Grocery prices are still up from prepandemic numbers in the U.S. but— relatively speaking — they are the cheapest in the world.
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