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September 15, 2016
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
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August 8, 2016
Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
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July 8, 2016
The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.
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March 9, 2016
Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics.
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December 17, 2015
The anger over ceaseless racial threats has entwined with the recognition of campus as one more zone of unfreedom.
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The Nation is reader supported.
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October 29, 2015
A new app brings clarity to an old situation: the collaboration between journalism and capitalism.
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June 19, 2015
We feel something has ended but nothing has begun. Perfect harmony is a magical, effervescent bubble.
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May 6, 2015
Money is sitting around in its sweatpants listlessly spooning peanut butter out of a jar.
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April 8, 2015
The music of Empire is the theology of capitalism.
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March 24, 2015
Snowpiercer mocks what The Lego Movie cheers—a happy world of compulsory production.