Analysis
“Abu” and “Sun Dogs,” two finding-yourself film premieres
June 26, 2017Tambakis and Morrison have captured the mood of America in those times, which anticipates the hateful, anti-immigrant rhetoric so common today.
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Canada: Trudeau plans 70 percent military spending increase
June 26, 2017In a reversal of his election promises, Trudeau is surpassing even the Conservatives' planned military expenditures. What’s new? The arrival of Donald Trump.
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“The Pride”: The difference gay pride makes, and doesn’t
June 23, 2017Campbell’s writing in this four-actor play is an elegantly limned double portrait, as if through a two-way mirror, of two distinct time periods.
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Aesthetics meets politics in Josephine Baker tribute
June 23, 2017Daryl Brooks continues the Black Ensemble Theater's tradition of exploring the way that music and artists have given consciousness to the experience of racial oppression.
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The corporate choice—create real value or grand fortunes
June 22, 2017If downsizings and mergers don’t do the trick, CEOs can always just slash worker pensions and/or cut budgets for R&D and put the resulting “savings” into dividends and “buybacks,” two slick corporate maneuvers that jack up...
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