Arts, Ideas, and Travel
Patrick Barry, University of Michigan Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Art and Advocacy What prompted the idea…
Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17” is both a critique of gangster capitalism and an argument in favor of proletarian revolution. By Tim Brinkhof , This story was originally published by TRUTHOUT…
By Patricia Mainardi Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized…
March 7, 2025 by Sara Talpos In March and April of 2020, more than 50,000 people in the United States died from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Doctors were forced to…
Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites. Transcript This is…
by David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal February 21, 2025 Only one month in and the winds of chaos, the fallout of careless destruction, whip across the country, lashing Ohio, spreading…
Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more than a mainstay of Sunday school courses. “Good samaritan” is the catch-all way to describe…
February 7, 2025 by Emily Cataneo James was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the…
Unless he changes course, he will be brought down by corruption throughout his ranks, plunging polls, resistance by many states, and a Congressional GOP realizing that it is their political…
By: Hunter Dukes She was the first woman to run for president. The first female stockbroker to open a brokerage house on Wall Street. The first person to publish Marx…