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Sing Sing Is a Humanizing Portrait of the Dehumanized

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.

food

Why Do Domestic Food Prices Keep Going Up When Global Prices Fall?

C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh Networkideas.org
Rise in food prices can be traced to profiteering by large international agribusinesses and financial speculation in food commodity futures. Countries need domestic food sovereignty, regional arrangements to ensure supply, and volatility controls.

poetry

Unsteady Topography

Oksana Maksymchuk Pleiades
As wars go on, writes the Ukrainian-American poet Oksana Maksymchuk, civilians find moments of joy, but then….

poetry

My California

Beau Beausoleil
For the poet Beau Beausoleil, the war in Gaza drags on, no end in sight and distance offers no clear refuge.

tv

The One Thing Veep Captures Better Than Any Other Political Show

Whizy Kim Vox
The year is 2023. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played VP Selina Meyer on the 2010s HBO comedy series Veep, visits the White House to meet President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. “Veep!” “Veep!” the two women greet one another.

books

We Can Breathe!

Gabriel Winant London Review of Books
The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism

books

The Patriarchs: How Men Came To Rule

Nicoleta Ciubotariu LSE Review of Books
This book "explores the origins of patriarchy, debunking biological determinism and highlighting the role of nation building, social norms, and violence in embedding gender inequality into societies."
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