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Though an excruciating movie to watch, even by cringe comedy standards, Friendship is a popular indie film that’s gone into wide release. The feature debut of writer-director Andrew DeYoung, who’s mainly worked in television (Our...

After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s time as a leading face of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was approaching its end. Indeed,...

The European Union has reimposed tight limits on states’ budget deficits — but with exemptions for military spending. After years of claims that austerity was over, we’re now seeing it used selectively to put limits...

President Donald Trump is often perceived as an ideological paradox — at once populist and plutocratic, pro-working-class and anti-labor, pro-growth and anti-trade, maverick conservative and old-guard Republican. But for all of what looks like impulsive...

There was a time when about 1 percent of the entire population of Greenland lived in a single building, before it was gradually evacuated in the early 2010s. Built in the 1960s, Blok P in...

Ilan Pappé We had hoped that, once the initial shock and trauma had passed, those who still regard themselves as liberals in Israel would realize that the only way to change Israel is through the...

For years, we’ve been hearing that the combination of childish governance and chronic budget deficits would eventually catch up with the United States, but the US always outran the worrywarts. That era, one in which...

In mid-February, the United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was scheduled to give a talk together with Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman at Berlin’s Free University. Yet, the school soon faced political pressure from Israeli...

The recent release of Israeli American hostage Edan Alexander was the product of direct negotiations between the United States and Hamas. Presented as a confidence-building measure to establish a wider cease-fire, Israeli representatives were not...

I brightened up over the The Final Reckoning part of the new Mission: Impossible title, figuring if it really is the final reckoning, we all have something to celebrate. After all, retirements are happy occasions....

It’s something beyond tragedy, beyond farce. The Trump administration and its Republican congressional allies are trying to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which would, among other measures, make Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts...

Climate change used to be a bipartisan issue. So did abortion rights. Ditto immigration. In each case, the earlier bipartisan consensus was much more liberal than the current conservative credo. The Right gained ground, both...