“Film’s unlikely hope? A quirky, brilliant wave of directors churning out microbudget features that are pushing what’s possible with minuscule funding.”
Peter Rubin
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Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy
“A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of ‘natural causes.'”
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Police Killed His Son. Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends With His Murder
“It’s been four years since a Phoenix police officer killed Jacob Harris. As Harris’s friends grow up behind bars, his father won’t stop until he gets justice for his son.”
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How Cal Newport Rewrote the Productivity Gospel
“His strategies for stressed-out knowledge workers have sold 2mn books. What does he know that we don’t?”
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On the Trail of the Fentanyl King
“An Iraqi translator for the US military emigrated to Texas to start a new life. He ended up becoming one of the biggest drug dealers on the dark web.”
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Back, Scoundrels: Eating the Rich on Film
“A century after ‘Battleship Potemkin,’ portraying class conflict on screen seems less black-and-white, and not just because we’ve invented color photography.”
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Margaret Atwood Is Ready to Let It Rip
“With exactly nothing to prove and no one left to impress, she seemed happiest bantering.”
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Deleting Delusions
“With more than four billion people now active on social media platforms, our virtual lives are beginning to devour our actual ones.”
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It’s Time to Legalize Sampling
“Hip-hop is 50 years old, but the genius idea at its core remains unprotected. Here’s how we can change that.”