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4 days ago

‘A cynical ploy to hold power’: how the US right has exploited racial division

In the documentary White with Fear, an insidious long-running campaign to villainize people of color in the US is laid bare

In the year 1968, a group of housewives in Dearborn, Michigan, then a nearly…

5 days ago

The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan review – Timothy Leary’s right hand woman

A key a protagonist of the psychedelic counterculture, Rosemary Woodruff lived a life every bit as fascinating as her husband’s

Of Timothy Leary, we know plenty. How, in the early 1960s, he gave LSD t…

19 days ago

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews David Frost Vs...: Journalist's humbling of Richard Nixon is a masterclass in the interviewer's art

The interview gave an unparalleled opportunity to study Nixon's face, a picture of political cunning under a mask of suspicion, thanks to British chat show host David Frost's lenghty inquisition.

27 days ago

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

In 2021, JD Vance, then a candidate for Ohio senate, gave a provocative keynote address a…

34 days ago

After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism | Sidney Blumenthal

The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t work

In the 2024 election, Donald Trump eked out a narrow victory, by 1.5 percentage points nationally, the lowest po…

51 days ago

One to One: John & Yoko review – Lennon and Ono storm Manhattan in intimate post-Beatles doc

Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’s spry study of the couple in early 70s New York is as much as jittery collage of the era’s culture as it is a revealing portrait

John and Yoko. Greenwich Village.…

52 days ago

Iran and US to meet for nuclear talks but little obvious prospect of success

Tehran’s nuclear program at stake in Oman after Trump’s surprise announcement – can a breakthrough be reached?

Historical metaphor refers to them as “Nixon in China” moments: diplomatic encounters whe…

54 days ago

One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream

A collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural moments

Film-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of po…

59 days ago

60 days ago

Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One

The director of One to One: John & Yoko reveals how he was given access to a trove of intimate and family archive material that changes how we see the star couple

People are usually at their most inte…

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