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One afternoon in April 2022, Josh Saltzman, the owner of a sports bar in Washington, DC, opened his inbox to find what looked like a french fry price-fixing conspiracy. Saltzman had received a notice from...

Physical media has been up against decline for years, as manufacturers and retailers drop DVDs, Blu-rays, and video games on disc in favor of their digital alternatives, including streaming and downloaded copies of films, television...

Syriza has suffered another split and is now a much smaller party. Stefanos Kasselakis, the successor to Alexis Tsipras as president of Syriza, was not only ousted from his position by a newly formed majority...

Rachel Cohen has a recent piece in Vox about a conservative welfare reform aimed at removing marriage penalties. This comes up a lot in conservative welfare circles, especially during and after presidential elections. It is doubtful that...

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown rests on three fairly safe assumptions about our culture. First, that many people enjoy conventional biopics. Second, that many people enjoy the actor Timothée Chalamet. And third, that many people...

Marta Havryshko Yes, I’m convinced that the Maidan Revolution enabled ultranationalists to hijack memory politics in Ukraine. They started to impose an ultranationalist narrative. And from the beginning many people were actually not in favor...

The neo-Nazi subculture first emerged in Russia in the mid-1990s but remained marginal until the early 2000s. At the time, more traditional forms of neo-Nazi organization had gained greater popularity, mimicking the structures of fascist...

In March 2024, the World Inequality Lab published a paper on economic inequality in India, with an eye-grabbing headline: “India’s ‘Billionaire Raj’ Is Now More Unequal Than the British Colonial Raj.” The coauthors of this...

“We defend workers better than the caviar left!” Campaigning for November’s regional elections in Emilia-Romagna and Umbria, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni was sure to emphasize her party’s connection to ordinary people. She argued that...

When it comes to creating an aura of occult menace and eerie atmospherics, Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is a triumph. His is such a rare talent that it seems almost unnecessarily picky to note the film’s...

Since Donald Trump triumphed over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic Party has been consumed by an ongoing Discourse War concerning what went wrong and who is to blame. Opinion sections, podcasts,...

Former US president Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, was a true friend of Palestine. Despite a decidedly checkered presidency on issues ranging from human rights abroad to...