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Greg Mitchell’s new, short documentary addresses the California campaign for governor in 1934, when the boundaries between politics and media first became blurred.
There’s sadness and trauma throughout the film, but also a light – literally and figuratively felt – that shines on Mamie Till, her son Emmett, and on the team of black activists that join the fight for justice.
It’s likely we’ll see more of these kind of movies, just as likely we’ll see more of these storms.
The films, among the best of 2017, reveal a country under the thumb and the gun of a certain few who will never be satisfied with what they have.
Word of mouth has been making the rounds to turn what was the city's Lee Circle – named after the Confederate hero Robert E. Lee – into a place commemorating the man who belted “My Blue Heaven”
This is a horror film for our time unlike any other – a documentary about the snowball effect that hate and misinformation produce from generation to generation, poisoning potentially good people with ugly evil.
The new Netflix documentary isn’t just a biopic on the political strategist and self proclaimed “agent provocateur” Roger Stone – it's a blueprint of sinister, cutthroat realpolitik and its execution throughout the dirtiest presidential campaign in recent memory.
At its core, "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press" raises the question of where the line is between public and private, whether crossing it is “bad,” and whether the news men and women who do so ought to be held legally accountable.
Okja is the story of corporate dream factories run amok. It is a tome on the real beating heart of capitalism and the implications of letting that system operate with little to no impunity.
Through all the invisible walls that it demonstrates are surrounding us, "Rat Film" seems to conclude that people will continue living and making due. People, in general, won’t be brought down. We’ll find a way.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
As Trump’s campaign grows increasingly bizarre, his team appears to be more tightly controlling his movements and carefully scripting his public appearances to minimize the negative impact his erratic behavior may have on undecided voters in swing states.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
Former President Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about deputizing death squads against Americans.
Throughout history, fascist governments have had a similar reliance on the use of lies as a weapon to take and retain power.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.