The Stories Behind ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’
If you’ve seen any trailers for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, you have every right to expect a high-octane biopic of the legendary New Jersey...
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Breaking Down the Shattering Ending of Invasion Season 3
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Invasion Season 3 Death hangs in the air when Invasion’s Season 3 finale begins. In the penultimate episode, Verna...
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The Weimar Republic Offers a Warning on Political Violence
Last month, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed, shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. In August, a shooter attacked the Centers for Disease Control...
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History Shows How Not to Resolve Political Differences
The history of the French Revolution helps illuminate the stakes and the challenges at hand. In particular, this history suggests that when each side views...
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How Jenni Konner Helped ‘Nobody Wants This’ Go Deeper
The veteran television writer Jenni Konner knows how to tune out bad press. After all, she spent six seasons as the co-showrunner of HBO’s Girls,...
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The True Story Behind Netflix Dark Comedy Good News
Like many of cinema’s best historical black comedies, Good News is based on fact. The Korean film follows the real-life 1970 hijacking of a Japanese...
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The True Story Behind Blue Moon and Lorenz Hart
For the director Richard Linklater, the tone of his new film Blue Moon, about the lyricist Lorenz Hart, was obvious from the jump. “It’s like,...
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History Shows the Perils of Troops Policing American Cities
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has ordered National Guard troops into Los Angeles and Washington, D.C, to combat violent crime and support the government’s...
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A Netflix Docuseries Gives Victoria Beckham a Much Deserved Reassessme
In the last decade, a spate of pop culture examining how the media mistreated famous women in the 1990s and 2000s has recontextualized their stories....
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Video Games Have Long Been a Convenient Scapegoat
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had hoped to hear testimony on Wednesday from the heads of gaming forums about “the radicalization of online...
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CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades
When the news came on Monday that Paramount is acquiring The Free Press, an online political commentary site, and giving its co-founder Bari Weiss the...
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The True Story Behind Fairyland’s Father-Daughter Drama
One night in 1973, Alysia and Steve Abbott’s lives changed forever when Alysia’s mother, Steve’s wife, died in a car accident. The following year, when...