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How to Build Your Own Political Dynasty: An Instruction Manual
So, you want political power? You can picture your name on elementary schools and highways; you dream of a crowd chanting your name under raining red, white, and blue confetti. In America this means you have to run a top-notch,…
A Silent Surge: The New NHPD Strategy That No One’s Talking About
In December 2014, Yale students, Yale faculty, and New Haven activists marched across the city to the beat of drums. Since Michael Brown was shot on a Ferguson, MO, street last August, groups such as the Black Student Alliance at…
Feeling Versus Fact: Reconciling Ava DuVernay’s Retelling of Selma
The film Selma is not honest, according to Julian Bond, civil rights leader, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and former chairman of the NAACP. “There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” Bond…
A Mere Mirage: Chinese Uyghurs Struggle for Religious Freedom
The Xinjiang region, home to China’s Uyghur minority, boasts a unique ethnic identity — one that is often violently at odds with Beijing’s one-size-fits-all, Han-dominated policies.
Handicapping the Presidential Fields
The Politic takes its first look at the race to replace President Barack Obama.
Scramble for Romneyland
Tracking all the campaign hires as the 2016 presidential race gets into gear.
The Imitation Game’s Storytelling Fails the Test
The film is awash in Oscar nominations, but it suffers from three grave faults.