Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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World
French presidential candidates Le Pen and Macron: Worlds apart or feuding neighbors?
April 19, 2022Much is made about the distinction between the two, but unfortunately what is also apparent is that the distance is shrinking as the neoliberal Macron shifts further to the right.
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Culture
Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington
April 18, 2022"I knew Jimmy Stewart, and you, sir, are no Jimmy Stewart."
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Culture
Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel
April 12, 2022One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.
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World
France: Another victim of the endless war in Ukraine
April 8, 2022The most prominent immediate effect of the war has been an increase in an already rising inflation after French businesses raised prices coming out of the COVID confinement.
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Culture
Another European invasion: Corporate streamers and spring television preview
April 7, 2022The Dark Heart, a prizewinner at the festival that deserved its accolade, is a Swedish series about a controlling father who ravages the land and exerts his iron will over the town.
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Culture
The year in global streaming: Welcome to the Om(n)i(cron)verse
December 22, 2021The need to produce constant weekly product to match streaming competitors reached a level of frenzy this year.
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Culture
Fall global series review: From Black radicalism to British royals in space
October 4, 2021Most serious serial TV has moved online where there is no traditional “Fall TV Season,” that being a thing of the past - what did your parents used to call it? oh yeah, network TV.
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Culture
Strikes and financial tomfoolery highlight an alternative global fall TV season
September 20, 2021
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