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  • Right-wing supporters look to a glorified past while left-wingers are optimistic about the future

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    The writer-director’s searing drama of reporters in the line of fire strips away political context to focus on the self-perpetuating nature of war

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  • How Indians won civil rights in Australia

    Government officials and influential private citizens took up the cause of Indian immigrants in Australia, which had a state-sanctioned discrimination policy.

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  • Movie Review – Civil War (2024)

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  • John Kerry and US military rot

    It is difficult, 20 years on, to say which is more unlikely: that flip-flopping, wind-surfing, “Jinjis” Khan-pronouncing John Kerry came within an Ohio whisper of the White House or that Kerry’s rebuke proceeded in large part from a bevy of cheesed-off veterans. Politics change in two decades, of course, and my guess is that the […]

  • What 'Civil War' Gets Right (and Wrong) About Photojournalism

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  • Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Very, Very Good Man

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