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We are currently in the middle of the third longest-running government shutdown in American history. With 16 full days down, and no clear end in sight, the odds are good that the 2018-’19 shutdown will outlast 2013’s (also 16 days)…
Following his abrupt announcement last month that US troops will be withdrawing from Syria, President Donald Trump has made incoherent claims about the status of the fight against ISIS in that country. On Monday morning, Trump acknowledged that the fight…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) proposed a top tax rate of 70 percent to finance a Green New Deal — an array of programs to sharply cut down America’s carbon emissions — in a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend. Conservative…
The astounding growth in wind and solar power coupled with their plummeting prices means that we are now radically rethinking how we produce, transmit, and sell power. Customers want 100 percent renewable energy, states want to cut their greenhouse gas…
In its first season, “True Detective” cultivated a delirious murder-mystery psychosphere, flirted with gross and engrossing conspiracy theories, elevated buddy-cop banter to an entertaining level of existential bushwa, embodied the McConaissance—then shrivelled to a grotesque whodunnit, in an unaccountably uplifting…
The Iranian cinema’s world prominence is due largely to the films of the late Abbas Kiarostami, whose meticulously local, fastidious realism is built on a Möbius filmstrip of metafiction and self-implication. A standout feature at the Iranian Film Festival New…
