Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Reproductive rights in the 116th Congress: A clear partisan divide
October 28, 2019Keeping women in submission by disallowing them control over their own bodies and their own families is keeping the whole working class down.
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Race and grace in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
October 25, 2019The 2015 Pulitzer Prize committee called Between Riverside and Crazy “a nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.”
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Los Angeles Master Chorale features ‘Oceana’ with lyrics by Pablo Neruda
October 24, 2019A quarter of a century ago there were surely voices crying out against the despoliation of our waters, but few were listening.
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Netanyahu fails to form a government after Israeli election—What happens now?
October 22, 2019The Joint List vote is a sign that the left, however it is reconstituted, is not dead, but focused on pragmatic rather than ideological goals.
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‘By the Grace of God’: Film skewers pedophile priests in France
October 17, 2019Despite some small criticisms, it’s a riveting “spiritual” thriller that takes no “liberties with the facts,” according to the director.
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‘Neil Simon’s Musical Fools’: Everybody plays one sometime, right?
October 16, 2019It is so boisterously silly and good-hearted, and suitable for all audiences, that it is truly worth seeing in times that need a little comic relief.
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‘The Abuelas’ unpacks repercussions of child kidnapping in Argentina’s Dirty War
October 15, 2019“If you have doubts about your identity, contact Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.” So read billboards across today’s Argentina.
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‘Emanuel’ recounts tragic 2015 murders in Charleston and radical Christian forgiveness
October 11, 2019The tragic incident on June 17, 2015, blazed to the top of the news: A 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylan Roof calmly entered the door to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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