Welcome to Noir-vember, a month long celebration of shady heroes, cunning femme fatales, ineffective police, and suspense! Whether film noir should be considered its own genre or a specific set of...
Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was Natalia Antonova's modest proposal: Maybe the rich shouldn't have to pay taxes? Have another suggestion for reforming the US...
Death and taxes are supposed to be the two inevitabilities of life but, for some of the most privileged, the latter appear to be being widely avoided by sneaky investments in tax havens abroad. As...
The year since Trump was elected has been an important year to be an Asian-American or Pacific Islander. It’s been a frustrating year. It’s been an inspiring year. At times it’s been a...
People are running around and screaming about the widening gap between the rich and poor, as if the country is about to fall into that gap and disappear. What they’re not taking into account is...
George W. Bush is like America’s wacky sitcom uncle and I’m tired of it. I think you should be, too. To be fair, I don’t think too many people are giving the former president a complete pass. I...
Good morning! In case you missed it, our most popular post last week was Louise Hung's on the racial politics of Star Trek: Discovery. If you haven’t already, subscribe to the Global...
As a long, long list of men in the film industry accused of sexual harassment and abuse gets ever longer, and Trump seeks to silence his accusers, politicians in London are being put under the...
Before Star Trek: Discovery premiered, Michelle Yeoh’s accent received some attention. Soon after the release of a trailer, people started talking about the fact that Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian...
On Monday, the first in what are likely to be a series of indictments naming Trump cronies came down, sweeping up Paul Manafort and his former business partner, Richard Gates. The 31-page document...
