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If I told you that a state legislature was trying to ram through an extreme partisan gerrymandering scheme at the very end of 2018, you’d probably assume I was talking about Republicans in North Carolina or Wisconsin. But I’m actually…
Just over a month after Arizona voters settled a hotly contested race for one of its Senate seats, its other one is now up for grabs. Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl — a former lawmaker who had been appointed to…
This Sunday, December 16, a comet called 46P/Wirtanen is going to come within 7.1 million miles of the Earth (about 30 times the distance of the Earth to the moon). While that may sound extremely far away, it’s actually close…
Republicans, about to lose their grip on power in a number of states, are souring Democrats’ election wins — and Wisconsin is taking charge. Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a slate of bills — passed by Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled legislature —…
With his new film, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, Barry Jenkins achieves something rare: he pulls the background into the foreground, combines a drama with an essay-film, an analytical documentary. What’s more, he…
In 2016, the multidisciplinary artist Devin Kenny’s work was screened in a video program at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Hito Steyerl, one of the show’s more established artists, forfeited her fee so that others could have…
