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How the Police Became an Occupying Army
Riotsville, U.S.A. documents the origins and rise of what the activist George Jackson called the “the corporate-military-police complex.”
Yasmina Price
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October 4, 2022
The Political Lessons of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”
The 1927 film raises the question, “Who will mediate between our head and our hands?”
David Bromwich
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September 29, 2022
Ken Burns Gets at the Nasty Underbelly of American History
David Nasaw in conversation with Jon Wiener on the new PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Jon Wiener
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September 29, 2022
The Real Butt of Nathan Fielder’s Joke
His awkward social comedies always leave you wondering: Whom should you be laughing at?
Vikram Murthi
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September 29, 2022
Is There a Future for Russian Independent Media?
The press in Russia has been operating under slow but constant erosion during the entirety of Putin’s watch.
Alyona Minkovski and Alina Spatz
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September 29, 2022
Can Democrats Hold the Senate? Plus: Ken Burns’s “The U.S. and the Holocaust”
On this week’s episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, John Nichols comments on the future of the Senate, and David Nasaw reviews a new documentary.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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September 28, 2022
We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing
The 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee has been welcomed in New York and around the world. Real refugees? Not so much.
Helen Benedict
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September 27, 2022
“Art as Solidarity” and Little Amal
Little Amal visited Andrea Arroyo’s exhibition “Art as Solidarity,” which is on view on the facade of the United Palace in Upper Manhattan.
Andrea Arroyo
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September 26, 2022
NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Friend of the Reactionary Court
How the supposedly liberal media protected a right-wing Supreme Court.
Jeet Heer
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September 21, 2022
Days of Their Lives: Steve Brodner’s “Living & Dying in America”
A personal memorial by the renowned cartoonist.
Steve Brodner with an introduction by Edward Sorel