Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld, which debuted at Park City back in January, is a cinematic reinvestigation of the mysterious 1961 plane crash that took the life of United Nations...
For the Yezidis August 3, the anniversary of the infamous genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State against their community, has yet again come and gone. It’s now been five years since the Islamic...
For the past three weekends, central Moscow has resembled more of a warzone than a quickly developing modern metropolis. Tens of thousands of people have been peacefully protesting in the street...
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Michael Buerk is a 73-year-old British newsreader who railed against obese people in his latest article for the Radio Times. “The obese will die a decade earlier than the rest of us,” he wrote....
Stranger Things is back in the zeitgeist again. Here's one from the archives... All aboard the nostalgia train, next stop Netflix and the '80s themed series Stranger Things. We disembark in Hawkins,...
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...
A lot has been written about the American culture war. As the country rips itself apart, the general mainstream thought is that Republicans, particularly in the new age of Trump, have abandoned any...
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In 2017, having already implemented swingeing cuts to people on benefits, former Chancellor George Osborne decided that families should be punished a little bit more. He put in place a limit to the...
