Review & Opinion

Kamil Askerkhanov02.10.2026

What is happening in France has already grown into something larger than yet another confrontation between high-school and university students and the education authorities. The protests began with demands that were both familiar and readily understandable: teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and deteriorating school infrastructure. Yet within days, the unrest spread across the country and began […]

Michael Moore28.09.2026

The Founders failed to create a true Democracy. Let’s win, then demand one. You can have all the 250th birthday parties you want for America — that great Democracy! But none of your cake and candles or champagne can obscure the fact that we have never been a true democracy. No matter how many times […]

Kamil Askerkhanov23.09.2026

As America’s midterm elections draw closer, the familiar numbers game is already underway. There is no point denying what the polls say: several national surveys do, in fact, show Democrats with an advantage. But the national generic ballot is not an election result. The House is decided across 435 individual congressional districts. The Senate is […]

Robert Reich21.09.2026

Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power? Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data centers, and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human species. Notably, both lambasted the corporate oligarchs […]

Vladimir Golstein21.09.2026

People fixated on either Israel or Gazan Palestinians can bemoan or gloat over it as much as they want. I am sure, the film offers a lot for each side to get itself worked up into a frenzy. But what remains heavily under-discussed is the elephant in the room. And by this elephant I mean […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky10.09.2026

The Republican Party is slowly shedding the original version of Trumpism. And Tucker Carlson has become toxic to political careers. J.D. Vance is not apologizing for his friendship with Carlson—at least not yet. But he is making it clear that he does not agree with him. Vice President J.D. Vance has increasingly been filling in […]

Yuri Chekalin09.08.2026

Tucker Carlson Lays Out 10-Point Manifesto as MAGA Coalition Shows Signs of Strain. American journalist Tucker Carlson has unveiled a 10-point political manifesto that he says should serve as a foundation for “the changes to come” in the United States. His nearly two-hour address offered the clearest indication yet of growing tensions within the MAGA […]

Vitaly Golovkov04.08.2026

‘Michael’: How legal constraints and corporate sterility undermined the biopic of the decade. The making of Michael, the long-awaited biographical film about the “King of Pop,” has become one of the most remarkable production stories in modern Hollywood. With a reported budget of $155 million, the project was conceived as the definitive cinematic portrait of […]

Robert Reich22.07.2026

Is it possible to be loyal to Trump and preserve one’s integrity? There’s been a lot of discussion this past week about the meaning of integrity. You didn’t hear the word used directly; it was alluded to indirectly — in wondering whether Lindsey Graham was an immoral opportunist or clever pragmatist; in suspecting Todd Blanche […]

Yaroslav Listov05.07.2026

I have loved reading for as long as I can remember, but when I was nine years old, my life changed dramatically. Up on the top shelf of a closet, I discovered a mysterious old book. Its pages were loose and worn, and its black-and-white illustrations beckoned me toward distant, enigmatic lands. It was King […]

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France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

Midterm Pandemonium!

America’s Election Talk

The Rise of AI Populism

The Documentary Film Naza and Its Revelations

Vance Has a Problem: His Friendship with Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson Draws a Line

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Integrity

A Childhood Filled with Ancient Mysteries

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

Texas Declares a Diesel Emergency

Tokyo of Solitude

The Digital Economy Is Running Into the Physical World