Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight: review and cast interview
Quentin Tarantino has secured his place in popular culture by reaching into neglected corners of cinema for genres that are ready for reinvention and rediscovery.
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Friday essay: why soldiers commit war crimes – and what we can do about it
Soldier atrocities are shaped by our society, culture, and political fabric. Preventing them will require a comprehensive rethinking of policies, attitudes, and approaches to war.
Why the flag of South Vietnam flew at US Capitol siege
Onlookers who recognized the flag wondered why the mostly white mob had ‘coopted’ Vietnamese history. But Vietnamese Americans are Trump supporters, too, some driven by a potent fear of socialism.
US moves to rename Army bases honoring Confederate generals who fought to defend slavery
One of the last relics of ‘lost cause’ ideology is nearing its end as a federal panel has recommended renaming US military bases now honoring Confederate generals.
Ruby Ridge: 25 years since the siege that fired up the US’s radical right
The radical right has a keen sense of its own history, and the violence of the 1990s is still fresh in its memory.
Texas license plate case examines the ‘value’ of offensive speech
In hearing the case of a group determined to put an image of the Confederacy on a Texas license plate, the Supreme Court again examines the the limits of “offensive” speech.
Terror isn’t always a weapon of the weak – it can also support the powerful
The attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and the sending of pipe bombs to critics of the current administration are examples of the increase in the violence on the margins of the right.
Trump’s media tactics echo segregationist strategies in the civil rights era
A demagogue playing the media to legitimise extreme movements and radical right-wing causes? The US has been here before.
A century ago, James Weldon Johnson became the first Black person to head the NAACP
The influential civil rights group got its start following a wave of brutal white-led violence against Black people in Springfield, Illinois.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s pending promotion sheds new light on his overlooked fight for equal rights after the Civil War
Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.
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