Last week, the labor organization Workers Strike Back sent an email about the desperate need to build a grassroots movement for Medicare for All. The Democratic Party, they argue, is simply not a reliable actor on the issue. It refuses to mount a serious policy fight to get a program like this passed, instead relying…Read more On the Democratic Party’s Long History of Bait and Switch
Barack Obama
On Michael Moore, Gaza and Political Personalities
Listening to the cultural conversation on Gaza over the past year has been deeply disturbing, and not just for the obvious reasons. Instead of providing serious context or analysis, the chatter has focused mostly on parsing the ongoing genocide through an individual rather than systemic lens. This failing extends to those who should know better,…Read more On Michael Moore, Gaza and Political Personalities
On Ben Rhodes and the Dangerous Fecklessness of Modern Democrats
"During my decade as a speechwriter for Barack Obama, he used to say that our entire job was to tell a really good story about America." - Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting for Barack Obama What is America and who gets to define it? Ben Rhodes' recent piece…Read more On Ben Rhodes and the Dangerous Fecklessness of Modern Democrats
Film Review: Southside with You (2016)
On the surface Richard Tanne's Southside with You has the appearance of a bad joke. Taking place over the course of a 1989 afternoon on Chicago's south side, the film depicts the first date between future first lady Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) and future president "No Drama" Obama (Parker Sawyers). Before watching it, I worried…Read more Film Review: Southside with You (2016)
Film Review: Game Change (2012)
One of the most engaging appearances in Game Change, the 2012 HBO film about Sarah Palin and the 2008 election, is not Julianne Moore take on the infamous former governor of Alaska. It is actually Tina Fey, who spectacularly impersonated Palin in a number of SNL skits during the '08 cycle, and who has continued to…Read more Film Review: Game Change (2012)
Film Review: Roll Out Cowboy (2010)
Balancing one’s creativity with one's finances is an arduous endeavor. Such is the case for the main subject of the new documentary Roll Out Cowboy, which is compassionately directed by Columbia College alum Elizabeth Lawrence. In Lawrence’s engaging film we follow a somewhat outrageous character named Chris Sand whose stage name is Sandman: The Rappin…Read more Film Review: Roll Out Cowboy (2010)
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