Chomsky After Epstein
Noam Chomsky's defense of Jeffrey Epstein echoes his campist foreign policy positions – both are a betrayal of the left
Noam Chomsky's defense of Jeffrey Epstein echoes his campist foreign policy positions – both are a betrayal of the left
A night in the lives of volunteers at an ICE detention facility
In Bulgaria, Sofia Pride is under siege from domestic reactionaries and DOGE cuts alike – but they’re fighting back
An interview with Tae-Hee Jo, leading heterodox economist and collaborator of Frederic S. Lee’s
Our correspondent met with the great Iranian director to get his thoughts on political cinema, what it means to go back behind the camera, and what gets lost in translation.
What does it mean to actually want power?
After the Gaza genocide, Elia Suleiman’s 1996 classic film Chronicle of a Disappearance shows us how life can persist
What the spread of East Asia’s beauty trends reveals about the region’s soft power influence.
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
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