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Opinion: The improvement Trump could make to U.S. foreign policy

LA Times

Donald Trump participates in a Security Council briefing on counterproliferation at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2018 at U.N. headquarters in New York. The idea that the United States upholds global stability by leading a “rules-based” order tends to generate more ill will than goodwill in many parts of the world. The concept of a rules-based order gained …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nazis bullied a conservative Tennessee town. Locals punched back. Trump should be worried.

Raw Story

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Diners lined the sidewalk to snag one of the coveted tables at Puckett’s Grocery on Sunday as this small city south of Nashville hummed through one of the last perfect days of autumn. More recently, during his Veterans Day speech in New Hampshire on Nov. 11, Trump vowed that, if reelected, he will “root out… the radical …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The BJP’s Karnataka defeat — a blow to its mythmaking

The Hindu

The Congress’ decisive win in Karnataka shatters two myths about the BJP’s electoral dominance — the idea of “subaltern Hindutva” and the popularity of the “double engine” slogan. The former tendency has scorched the BJP in state elections in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, while the latter tendency has stalled the party’s expansion bid in state elections of Telangana, Orissa …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Column: Why Trump’s indictment is filling ‘never again’ Trumpers with dread and despair

LA Times

Protesters gather outside Trump Tower in New York on Friday, the day after former President Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. For all the talk about how this indictment helps Trump solidify Republican support, it hurts his — and the party’s — prospects in 2024. And, again, contrary to the echo-chamber mythmaking of Trump’s PR team, reaction to …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Why period films are deployed as tools of propaganda

Live Mint

Invariably, films set in the past are really about the present, reflecting either the zeitgeist of the times or a narrative the film maker wishes to project, whether consciously or unconsciously. Since the ‘truth’ a movie shows is merely a perspective, a film that highlights humanity, decency, the principles of democracy and the essential equality of all is one that …

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55 years ago

Thanksgiving story and free enterprise: How the right has taken the holiday for its own.

Slate

Google “Thanksgiving” and “free enterprise” and you will find links to articles on conservative and libertarian think tank websites with titles like “How Communism Almost Ruined the First Thanksgiving,” “Thanksgiving is a Celebration of Free Enterprise,” and “Thanksgiving, Socialism, and Free Enterprise.” These pieces, remarkable in their ideological consistency, are the product of decades of mythmaking, begun before the internet …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Mank movie review: David Fincher demolishes Hollywood mythmaking in delicious new Netflix film

Hindustan Times

Mank Director - David Fincher Cast - Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Tom Burke, Charles Dance Mank movie review: Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in a still from David Fincher’s new Netflix film. But Mank, the movie, suggests that Mankiewicz was Citizen Kane’s sole writer. Tom Burke as Orson Welles in a still …

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4 years, 5 months ago

A year on, Article 370 and Kashmir mythmaking

The Hindu

While the long-standing ideological commitment of the Bharatiya Janata Party to undo Article 370 of the Indian Constitution is why Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status as well as Statehood making it a simmering cauldron of discontent, our collective mythmaking about Kashmir is the deeper reason for what the former State has become today. Put differently, J&K’s …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Calm with Horses star Barry Keoghan on having ADHD, growing up in care, and playing a Marvel villain

The Independent

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5 years, 6 months ago

Anubhav Sinha's Article 15 peddles a mythology rather than engaging honestly with the reality of caste

Firstpost

Article 15 tries to foreground the Constitution as a moral guide to caste relations, although it also describes caste as a 2000-year-old practice; the question is how something committed to paper around 1950 can undo something so ancient, the origins of which one can only speculate about? Article 15 deals with an especially complicated issue – caste and caste politics …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Long live Ser Brienne of Tarth: An argument for a "Game of Thrones" knight's survival

Salon

Obsessed as “Game of Thrones” viewers have been over the circumstances surrounding Arya Stark’s deflowering, the significance of Brienne of Tarth being knighted has, in general, received less extensive contemplation. It’s probably safe to presume that viewers invested in Ser Brienne’s adventures and character development — and minus a few incels, that should describe most of the audience — are …

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6 years, 3 months ago

Is 'A Star Is Born' Great American Mythmaking Or Cliched Trash? A Debate.

Huff Post

An actual photo of the authors of this piece when they finally settled on a review of "A Star Is Born." Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Mike Marsland via Getty Images PF: I agree, Cooper normally doesn’t do it for me, but I would let Jackson Maine rub a baked good in my face any day. Ally’s shift to pop …

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