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As the world watches the dystopian horror movie in Gaza unfolding on social and traditional media, U.S. news networks are giving more attention this week to the Hollywood awards season. As South Africa makes the case against Israel’s genocide at the International...
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How US War Coverage Fails to Further the Necessity of Peace
To address these intensifying humanitarian crises, the United Nations and other multilateral institutions must intervene to contain Russia and pave a path to a peaceful resolution. And it is the responsibility of media organizations across the globe to demand these institutions focus on this peace building.
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There isn’t much to South Butler these days. But, improbably, something did happen here that sets it apart. Samuel Ringgold Ward. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Gerrit Smith. All three were major players in the social reform movements that swept the Northern states in the Antebellum years.
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We need to see this newest devastating crisis of democracy in the U.S. with renewed urgency because it has too long a history. Look at what is happening to Iranian women (and Saudi, and Indian, and Afghan) and see ourselves together, in camaraderie against illiberal theocracies.
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The continuing Russia-Ukraine War demands new ways of thinking both about media coverage that seeks to inform in real time and new strategies about how to document it in order to build alternative archives.
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The Continuing Trouble and Tragedy within ‘Death of a Salesman’
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Upending Arthur Miller: A Clarion Call to Our Cultural Emergency
Gleitman’s book, “Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond,” begins by confronting the dominant figure of 1950s American drama, the male breadwinner and his anxiety about displacement from the center of economic and cultural relevance. It traces its resonances outward to our contemporary moment.