Nadav Lapid’s Cinema of Shame Nadav Lapid’s Cinema of Shame
His new film Ahed’s Knee is a shallow cri de coeur against the Israeli state.
Mar 31, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kaleem Hawa
Portland Soccer Feels the Power of Protest Portland Soccer Feels the Power of Protest
A movement to remove franchise owner Merritt Paulson could send shock waves beyond the Rose City.
Mar 30, 2022 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
In Every Corner of Palestine, There Is a Story of Dispossession In Every Corner of Palestine, There Is a Story of Dispossession
Today is Land Day, an annual commemoration of those killed protesting Israeli theft of Palestinian lands 46 years ago. But even now, there is a Nakba everywhere you look.
Mar 30, 2022 / Mohammed El-Kurd
Across the Country, Faculty Fight to Defend Academic Freedom Across the Country, Faculty Fight to Defend Academic Freedom
Displaying an unprecedented solidarity, the academic community is mobilizing to confront an existential assault on its professional work and values.
Mar 30, 2022 / Ellen Schrecker
Coal Trains and Climate Protest: It’s Spring in New England Coal Trains and Climate Protest: It’s Spring in New England
What connects anti-war demonstrations in Russia with climate activists in the US? An opposition to fossil capital.
Mar 30, 2022 / Wen Stephenson
Why Keep Politics Out of the Oscars? Why Keep Politics Out of the Oscars?
The Academy might like to imagine that their star event is just fun and games, but the fact is the Oscars are always political. So why not have included Volodymyr Zelensky?
Mar 30, 2022 / J. Hoberman
How the Student Debt Crisis Hurts Women How the Student Debt Crisis Hurts Women
With the payment moratorium for student loans expiring on May 1, millions of women will face the possibility of financial ruin.
Mar 30, 2022 / StudentNation / Vivek Kakar and StudentNation
The Oscars: Awkward Spectacle The Oscars: Awkward Spectacle
The Academy Awards felt like a hyperactive fever dream, but really it was just a terribly engineered event that reeked of neediness and obsolescence and that was given its sole mom...
Mar 30, 2022 / Vikram Murthi
