No Place for Anything, Least of all, Soccer
A new documentary about football in Greenland provokes thoughts about sport and politics
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Politics
Hell: A Guided Tour
Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s harrowing memoir describes the sleazy, brutal underworld of sex trafficking and the vicious predators who reigned there
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R.I.P. Morality in Publishing
Thomas Gebremedhin, head of Doubleday imprint, tells murdered woman to ‘rest in piss’
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‘Hacks,’ Colbert, and the Case for an Independent Media
‘The Late Show’ and ‘PBS’ are casualties that we can’t afford
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Harry Turtledove Goes ‘Powerless’
What if California were a People’s Democratic Republic under Russian Soviet control?
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Federal Court Rules Against Intellectual Freedom In Llano County Case
“Disturbingly flippant” opinion means that libraries can remove whatever material they want from shelves
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The Cancellation of Salman Rushdie
A California college invited the ‘Satanic Verses’ author to speak at commencement. Then the trouble started.
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Trump Administration Keeps Slashing the Arts
Cuts! Firings! Lawsuits!
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The Movie Business Is Tariff-ied
Trump’s latest riff has Hollywood scratching its head
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Paramount Wears It
In a rough two days for the media corporation, ’60 Minutes’ and Nathan Fielder stomp all over the hand that feeds them
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Public Funding for PBS and NPR is Coming to an End
In a nation divided, nationally-funded media makes less sense than ever
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Tariffs Have Killed Hollywood’s Dreams of Dominating the China Market
But that business proposition was going off the rails regardless
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U.S. Naval Academy Pulls Nearly 400 Books From College Library
Midshipmen, or just mid?
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‘The Encampments’ Movie Pitches A Tent For Mahmoud Khalil
Advocacy film shows us who Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protesters really are
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‘Fight’ is An Accurate Chronicle of American Political Surreality
Tragedy, or farce? The reader is free to make the call
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