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In her new photo series, artist Dina Goldstein has created tableaux that match a different president to one of the Ten Commandments. She hopes the images will bring ‘visual shock, incongruity, irony and metaphor to inspire discourse and insight into how American society has gone so astray’ Continue reading… More
If Donald Trump had anything in common with a poet, it would be Homer. Homer was a pre-literate poet from Ancient Greece, while Trump is a post-literate US president who prefers to be briefed orally, gets his news from television and boasts that he likes to read as little as possible. Homer refers to speech […] More
The Manhattan district attorney has announced it will consider reopening the case after a six-part series detailed potential miscarriages of justice The investigation into Malcolm X’s death could be reopened after new information was detailed in a Netflix series. Following the release of the six-part documentary Who Killed Malcolm X? – which launched on the […] More
To make money in the world of self-help books, being realistic and balanced, and where failure is accepted as a good thing, will not work. It seems that the leaders of America and the United Kingdom have cottoned on to this. It is well documented that Donald Trump is a big fan of the 20th-century positive-thinking […] More
Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng deliver gossip as well as the goods from behind the scenes of our national reality show In July 2018, the Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay posted a short piece about a mysterious $375,000 contribution from “Global Energy Producers” to America First Action, a pro-Trump Super Pac. Eighteen months later, federal agents […] More
As disregard for the ‘actual truth of the matter’ spreads, what can the author of The Prince tell us about The Donald? “Real power is – I don’t even want to use the word – fear.” Related: How to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the Devil Continue reading… More
Following a strikingly white and male list of Bafta nominees, this year’s Academy Awards shortlists are barely more diverse. It’s a chronic problem in an industry running out of excuses for its slow pace of change. Lanre Bakare examines why the Oscars are still so white. Plus: Joan E Greve on a hectic week of […] More
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s half-time show featured not-so-subtle allusions to Trump’s immigration policies and Puerto Rico Jennifer Lopez and Shakira wowed the crowd at Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, bringing their greatest hits to the National Football League’s half-time show in Miami. Related: Shakira and J-Lo’s Super Bowl show: an electric burst of energy Continue […] More
