17 Blocks: review
Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where it picked up the Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature Film, Davy Rothbart’s 17 Blocks is a compelling, two-decades-long look at...
Category: North America
An exploration of environmental racism through the documentary ‘There’s something in the Water’
The actress Ellen Page, known worldwide for the films Juno and Inception, recently released a documentary that she directed and produced to raise awareness of one of the problems faced by the...
The Reason Behind Donald Trump’s Unwavering Christian Support Is Darker Than You Think
When I was younger, I worked at a juvenile detention center. I got stuck on the dreaded weekend shift that was twelve hours back to back on Saturdays and Sundays. On those Sundays, I would take a few...
#WednesdayWisdom: Will The Real Traitors To The Republic Please Stand Up
I have it on good authority that President Donald J. Trump is not taking the impeachment inquiry news very well. Who, honestly, can blame him? The odds in this country are stacked against rich orange...
Recession or not, there’s trouble ahead
America’s “will they, won’t they?” relationship with the next recession is reaching a fever pitch; a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics finds that nearly 75% of...
#WednesdayWisdom Thoughts and prayers
You might have noticed that the United States has a tiny problem with gun violence. Don’t worry though! Texas State representative Matt Schaefer has noticed too! Texas, if you haven’t heard, has...
Review: Netflix’s “The Family”
Jesse Moss’s docu-series, The Family, was executive produced by Alex Gibney, who likewise produced the Netflix series Dirty Money, which included an episode helmed by Moss (The Overnighters)....
#WednesdayWisdom: Things To Blame Instead of Trump
It seems that President Donald J. Trump is getting a lot of blame lately for things going wrong in our society. Hateful rhetoric followed by a mass shooting? Greater societal polarization followed by...
The time for Democratic cowardice is over
As the collective furor over the Mueller testimony yesterday illustrated, the American public still cares about the lawless, corrupt, ruthless imperial presidency and all that's attached to it. What...
Here’s What Happened to the “American Century”
In a recent Foreign Affairs cover story, Fareed Zakaria attempts to answer the question: “what happened to the American Century?” This sober and prescient piece of writing begins with:...