Culture
‘LifeHack’ review: Punk anti-establishment heist film delivers with thrills and heart
May 15, 2026This is a film for people who have a bone to pick with a society that tells them the wealthy should be worshipped and that they should just accept their own powerlessness.
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Ernest Poole’s ‘The Harbor’: A working-class classic that still matters
May 14, 2026"The Harbor" does for the ship and dock workers of New York what Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" did for the immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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Soulcialists: How current pop music reissues helped retrace my political path
May 14, 2026These compilations of 1980s music show an element of UK music that embraced soul, jazz, and radical left politics that injected class conflict, anti-colonialism, and socialism for fans.
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Gavin Newsom’s autobiographical ‘Young Man in a Hurry’: More and less
May 12, 2026If you love reading political memoirs, this is that, but it's not exactly a bold statement of the kind of America Newsom would like to usher in once moving into the White House.
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‘Colored People’s Time: A History Play’ theater review
May 8, 2026Spanning 100 years, the storytelling does not focus on the high and mighty but rather on ordinary people, the rank and file who actually turn the wheel of history.
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