Myanmar’s upcoming, tightly controlled “elections” are designed to manufacture legitimacy for the junta, which hopes the mere ...

Clips and pictures from the actual life of George Orwell were very interesting. Orwell had tuberculosis, and the news clips ...

Americans may disagree on many things, but they still distinguish between necessary force and needless killing.

Civic freedoms in the U.S. have declined following President Trump's return to office, the report from CIVICUS found.

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...

In Cuba, reporting has long been an act of defiance. For over sixty years, the regime has turned the practice of independent ...

Sprawling dreams of revolution took over the big screen this year, and it’s not hard to imagine why. But subtler forms of ...

Like its predecessor, “Wicked: For Good” more than doubles the runtime of Act II of the Broadway musical that inspired it. But unlike the first “Wicked” film, the sequel makes big additions to the ...

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi refuses to be silenced. Having been imprisoned twice by the Iranian government, Panahi was last released in 2023 and continues to resist censorship through his art. His latest ...

“I didn’t have the opportunity to work with any companies or studios in Tehran,” Etminan explained. While most editors rely on cloud-based software, he couldn’t. Instead, he worked on an old MacBook ...