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Colombia’s Border Crisis
In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of ...
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Undoing Maria Callas
When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...
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‘Universal Language’
I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...
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Ronald Reagan’s Make-Believe
Ronald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in the LRB, was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more ...
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Failures at the CCRC
The new CCRC was independent of the government, free to investigate without political interference. It would have sixty staff ...
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Under the Santa Anas
In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among ...
London Review of Books9d
What changed?
For reasons that have little if anything to do with US national security or foreign policy, Donald Trump has made ...
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Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’
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London Review of Books10d
Everyone has their reasons
In the run-up to Trump 2.0, the speed with which former opponents of the once and future president are adapting to his re-election and displaying anticipatory obedience has been greater than anyone ...