Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side is a scrawny, off-putting mutt of a movie, one you’re likely to overlook, but shouldn’t—it has scads to say about two very different but very vital contemporary situations. On one hand, it’s a scalding portrait of the United States we try not to think about, the self-medicating America lost in the margins of red-state poverty. On the other, the film’s very existence is a testament to how we no longer can, or choose not to, distinguish between fiction and reality. Читать дальше...
We’re frighteningly close to June 23 and the referendum to decide whether the UK stays in the European Union or leaves. It’s been a nasty fight, and it’s getting nastier. The result is extremely important for us and for Europe, yet at least a third of the population seems indifferent to the outcome, while the other two-thirds are split along lines of enmity and alliance that make little sense and rely on wild speculation on both sides, straight lies and a shared refusal to discuss what really matters. Читать дальше...
Over 3,000 Bernie Sanders supporters convened in Chicago for the People’s Summit last weekend. “That we have come together is not a coincidence,” said Summit host and executive director of National Nurses United (NNU) RoseAnn DeMoro in her opening remarks. “How we stay together is the challenge before us at the People’s Summit.”
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