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“Di là dal fiume e tra gli alberi”… e a mille miglia da Ernest Hemingway
Se nella storia del cinema non mancano capolavori che sono tali pur tradendo i libri dai quali sono tratti, non è proprio il caso di questo film. Il romanzo dello scrittore americano è un puro pretesto per una storia scombiccherata e non basta la bravura dell’attore...
La detenzione nei Cpr: la Corte costituzionale colpisce ma non affonda
La reclusione degli stranieri nei Centri per il rimpatrio contrasta con la Costituzione sotto molti profili, a cominciare dal fatto che ad essere trattnute sono persone che non hanno commesso reati e che vi si trovano per quel che sono, non per quel che hanno fatto....
Messi: A Magician and Humanitarian
Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Lionel Messi’s continued success as a soccer player calls for an explanation of his remarkable abilities. Together with the Brazilian player Pelé and the Argentinian Maradona, he is consistently ranked among the three best players in...
Azzbackwards Alligator Alcatraz!
Why are we still screwing around? I mean, come on, it’s time to bite the bullet and get ‘er done! Why are we spending so much time and money on rounding up immigrants, then more money on shipping them overseas and paying other countries to jail ‘em? I thought DOGE was...
Can We Build Public and Political Support for Tackling Inequality?
Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarization is reinforcing conventional left-right fault lines. Elsewhere in the world, other divisions — cultural, social,...
Can We Stop Calling Them Populist Tax Cuts?
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain It is infuriating to see the media and politicians, including Democratic ones, refer to some of Trump’s campaign promises as “populist” tax cuts. Clearly, they were poll and focus-group tested and likely helped him...
Conservation Collaborators’ Appeasement Chickens Come Home to Roost
Photo by Christopher Zarriello About 30 years ago the industry-spawned strategy of “collaboration” entered the policy arena to influence and neuter the “conservation movement” that was dedicated to protecting the rapidly disappearing old growth forests, native...
An Economy of Genocide: Israel and the Albanese Report
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide makes mention of “corporate entities” who have been enriched by “the Israeli economy of illegal...
The Next Round in the Obscenity Wars
Photo by Nik Nikolla Young people like watching pornography. In 2023, an estimated 68 percent of U.S. adolescents viewed online pornography. A 2022 survey of more than 1,300 teens (age 13 to 17) found that about 3 out of 4 teens reported that they had viewed online...
Zohran Mamdani: “Globalize the Intifada” or the Reinvention of Goebbels’ Doctrine?
Image by Ahmed Abu Hameeda. Since winning the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani has spent more time addressing outrage over two words he never actually said than outlining his vision for the city. Ironically, his rivals’ overreach—each...
Time for a New American Revolution
The upside down flag is a signal of distress. This one flew at the Hands Off rally in Olympia, Washington April 5. Credit: Wikipedia Commons The Constitutional Republic in Danger Another July 4. It is 249 years after independence was declared in Philadelphia, one year...