The Politic Blog

“Roma embodies the profound struggle between revealing common humanity and the possible inevitability of art being self serving.”

In the middle of a forest clearing, hundreds gather for morning yoga. A group of families  browse a selection of healing crystals and sample a row of traditional elixirs. As the sun goes down, a giant stage lights up in…

“‘When people come out of prison, it’s a set-up.’”

“As long as I’ve been an artist, I’ve had an interest in the more neglected sides of creativity”.

And today, [the Maori] language, once in danger of extinction, is beginning to experience a renaissance.

Although the Thirteenth Amendment is often viewed through the lens of linear racial progress, the exception clause set into motion a long history of involuntary, brutal, and racialized prison labor.