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REVIEW: Seeking Answers After Domestic Abuse in “A Better Man”
“What is the best way for victims to achieve closure, if possible?”
Monumental Worries: A Rift over Land Rights in the Wild(ish) West
“The land is being loved to death.”
Oscars 2018 Liveblog
The Politic liveblogs the Oscars. Stay tuned for reactions, jokes, and maybe even memes.
Purple State: The Supreme Court Takes on Gerrymandering in North Carolina
“That richness of being a purple state…leads to good dialogue and debate.”
Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers: Refugees Share Their Cultures Through Culinary Diplomacy
“Sharing food is a form of nation branding—building collective knowledge of a culture through cuisine.”
Based on a True Story: The Ethos of the “Docudrama”
“Most of the time when you are making a film about a historical person it reflects much more about the time in which it is being made than it does about the period it’s trying to illuminate.”
The National Food Fight: Trump Administration takes on Obama-era School Nutrition Regulations
“The Trump Administration is pulling out all the stops to rollback any protection or public health safeguard at the expense of harming kids’ health.”