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'Mother Mary' Review: A Dreamlike Exploration of the Ecstasy and Misery of Artistic Collaboration
6+ hour, 41+ min ago (1040+ words) Britt has over 15 years of experience in journalism with an emphasis on film, TV, and cultural criticism. She is a former editor for The Mary Sue, Birth. Movies. Death, and Screen Crush, and her bylines include The A. V. Club, the Austin…...
Neither Impeachment Nor the 25th Amendment Offers Remedies for Removing Donald Trump
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (292+ words) Instead of looking for a magic bullet in the Constitution to bring Trump down, progressives and anti-Trumpers should concentrate on building a lasting, broad-based and genuine pro-democracy movement. Impeachment hearings and calls for invoking the 25th can play a role in…...
Republicans Deployed a Little-Known Law to Open Minnesota Wilderness to Mining
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (188+ words) It allows Congress to basically do a thumbs up or a thumbs down, where otherwise a filibuster would apply." The decision could set a dangerous precedent. Should the resolution be allowed to stand, it could'open up all land management decisions'to…...
The DNC's Strategic and Moral Blundering on Israel Continues
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (545+ words) Last Friday, the transparent thinness of the pretense caused'Politico'to headline an'article'this way: "Inside the DNC's Middle East (Not) Working Group." But the not-working group had been functioning quite well " as a charade for delay and obfuscation. The day before the…...
MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed
6+ hour, 30+ min ago (378+ words) What gnawed at me wasn't just the repetition, it was the categorical error. Farley was conflating opinion and argument, pretending they were interchangeable. Yes, people can have different opinions. But not every position is grounded in evidence, and not every…...
Personas mayores deportadas de Estados Unidos quedan atrapadas en M'xico sin recursos ni identidad
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1627+ words) Miguel recuerda fragmentos de su detenci'n en octubre de 2025. El encierro en Alligator Alcatraz en Ochoope, Florida. Las literas. La malla met'lica que separaba a unos de otros como si fueran animales enjaulados." "Era como una pollera, cuenta a Truthdig....
Trump's Pledge: Cut Medicare and Medicaid to Pay for War
1+ week, 3+ day ago (622+ words) No one ever accused the Democrats of being competent at politics, but with President Donald Trump leading the opposition, it shouldn't take much competence to win. Ordinarily, politicians look to twist their opponents' words to put them in a more…...
For Top Dems, AIPAC Is a Box-Checking Exercise
1+ week, 4+ day ago (813+ words) After decades of bipartisan deference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the likely contenders for the next Democratic presidential nomination have been distancing themselves from the powerful organization. The shift is significant. But disavowing AIPAC has become a…...
The Deafening Abdication of Four Ex-Presidents on Trump
2+ week, 4+ day ago (391+ words) What should the American people, especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling Donald Trump and the crony…...
Hotel Romania
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (638+ words) A sober satire about urban development, bureaucratic cruelty and the crushing mystery of complicity. The post Hotel Romania appeared first on Truthdig. Shot entirely on an i Phone 15, Radu Jude's "Kontinental '25" is a modern fable about one woman's moral spiral…...