Culture
New NAARPR booklet details history of the struggle for community control of police
January 30, 2023As the epidemic of police murder continues to spread, a new text by veteran activist Frank Chapman tells the story of how community control of police was won in Chicago.
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ review: Marx for Beginners!
January 26, 2023Triangle of Sadness is a hyperbolic and unyieldingly fierce look at capitalism and class.
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‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: An ahistorical film that rings hollow
January 18, 2023International film awards are by no means a good film guide. This applies to The Banshees of Inisherin as much as to the rest of them.
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Laos: A land still scarred by the bombs of U.S. imperialism
January 13, 2023Xiengkhouang Province, in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, is one of the most heavily bombed places on Earth.
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‘Hercules on the Thermodon’: Antonio Vivaldi’s baroque battle of the sexes
January 12, 2023Perhaps the opera is meant to disarm the most polarized tendencies between men and women in a highly stratified society that gave women little power.
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