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Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned ...

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Today in Dispatch Faith, U.K.-based journalist Katja Hoyer (who grew up in socialist East Germany) brings an analytical eye ...

Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.

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On Monday, outside of the Manhattan courthouse where ex-Marine Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of ...