On this episode of Start Making Sense, Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump losing four big cases, and John Powers on Caught by the Tides.
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Trump had four major court decisions against him in a single week last week: on tariffs, defunding Harvard, sending troops to LA, and deporting Venezuelans, different courts and appellate panels said he was violating the law. Erwin Chemerinsky comments – he’s Dean of the Law School at Berkeley.
Also: The new film “Caught by the Tides” by Jia Zhangke, considered worldwide to be the most important director in China: Over the last 30 years, his great project has been to tell stories that show the radical transformation of Chinese life by capitalism and the state. John Powers explains – he’s critic at large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The film is streaming now on the Criterion Channel
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Trump had four major court decisions against him in a single week last week: on tariffs, defunding Harvard, sending troops to Los Angeles, and deporting Venezuelans, different courts and appellate panels said he was violating the law. Erwin Chemerinsky comments—he’s dean of the Law School at Berkeley.
Also: The new film Caught by the Tides, by Jia Zhangke, considered worldwide to be the most important director in China: over the last 30 years. His great project has been to tell stories that show the radical transformation of Chinese life by capitalism and the state. John Powers explains—he’s critic at large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The film is streaming now on the Criterion Channel.
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As Trump’s support collapses, he has lashed out in two directions–sending an unprecendented number of ICE agents to Minneapolis, where one of them murdered Renee Good, and sending the military to Venezuela, where he says he has seized control of the oil industry. Harold Meyerson comments.
Also: Twenty Minutes Without Trump: There’s a new TV series about how capitalism came to Communist China, 30 episodes made for Chinese TV by the great Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, running now on the Criterion Channel. John Powers, critic-at-large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, explains.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon 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.