Films and TV put in their cultural and political contexts. By David Walsh, Chief…
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Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, dead at 77
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Last night, Jesse Williams received the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year award. He took…
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Miranda, Obama, and Hamilton: an Orwellian Ménage à Trois for the Neoliberal Age
by TGP STAFF53 minutes readPAUL STREET—bama has long embraced the bourgeois bootstraps narrative that celebrates the United States as the land that supposedly rewards hard and smart work and qualifies its belief in equality by tying it to supposedly decent opportunities (Miranda’s “my shot”) for all – not to a dreaded levelling of outcomes and rewards.
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[dropcap]D[/dropcap]avid Rovics is a gifted, anti-empire singer-songwriter, whose voice needs to be heard by…