Laura Poitras: The Many Contradictions of Julian Assange

Laura Poitras: The Many Contradictions of Julian Assange

Laura Poitras: The Many Contradictions of Julian Assange

Plus Stephen F. Cohen on the new Cold War, and Eric Foner on Trump and history.

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The new film by Laura Poitras, Risk, profiles Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Poitras, who won the Oscar for best documentary for her film about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour, calls Assange “admirable, brilliant, and flawed.”

Also: Stephen F. Cohen says a new cold war is threatening world peace, and a new McCarthyism is undermining American politics.

And Eric Foner says it might be possible to impeach Donald Trump—but having Mike Pence as president would probably be worse.

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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