Culture
LA Opera’s ‘Falstaff’ is a comedy delight about life and passion
April 30, 2026It is a case of feminine wiles versus the male ego.
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Union, lawmakers, performers condemn Paramount’s $110B mega-merger with Warner-Discovery
April 24, 2026The merger will leave unions, workers, and consumers on the outside looking in while CEOs enrich themselves and pledge their continued loyalty to Trump.
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Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War’ and the aesthetics of terror
April 9, 2026March 30 marked the 280th anniversary of the birth of an artist who explored with equal intensity the horror of his era and terror as a psychological reaction and existential condition.
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Sixty monuments under fire: The U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran’s cultural memory
March 26, 2026The United States has weaponized history itself, converting museums, mosques, and palaces into collateral in a broader agenda of coercion.
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What has the demise of New START to do with me?
February 10, 2026The end of the U.S.-Russia treaty doesn't predict nuclear war, but a people's movement must govern the future as the military industrial complex threatens all we hold dear.
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