| Excerpt: | Read NPI's reviews of the three films featured at the October 4th Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, concerning homelessness and rejoining society after incarceration. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Film |
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Category Archives: Media & Culture
Documentary Reviews: “Guest House”, “John Mendez: The Bridge”, and “Faith in Action”
Watch the fourth 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate tonight!
| Excerpt: | Twelve Democratic candidates will face each other in Ohio tonight, three weeks after Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. |
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| Published at: | 10:09 AM on Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Live Coverage, Party Politics |
| Tags: | Democratic Presidential Debates, US-Pres |
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As impeachment coverage takes over the news, can Democratic candidates benefit?
| Excerpt: | Donald Trump's looming impeachment. It's all CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets can seemingly talk about these days. Can the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders adapt? |
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| Published at: | 8:20 PM on Sunday, October 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Ruairi Vaughan |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Open Government, Party Politics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, US-Pres |
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Documentary Review: “Raise Hell” is a fun and inspiring portrait of journalist Molly Ivins
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of the 2019 documentary film that tells the story of Texas' best known columnist and advocacy journalist. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, September 28th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Film |
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ThinkProgress to power down, lose staff after Center for American Progress fails to sell it
| Excerpt: | We're losing another newsroom at a time when we need more journalism, not less. Read NPI's founder's response to the demise of a once-leading progressive source of news and analysis. |
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| Published at: | 3:49 PM on Saturday, September 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Future of Journalism |
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Don’t want our public discourse dominated by the right wing? Then don’t use their language
| Excerpt: | Words matter. Words mean things. Words are like flags for ideas. That's why an alliance of women's rights organizations is asking the BBC to stop using loaded language in its reporting. |
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| Published at: | 1:17 PM on Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Reframing 101 |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Our Bodies Our Doctors is a timely reminder of the importance of reproductive rights
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Our Bodies Our Doctors, a film about reproductive rights that's being screened at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. |
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| Published at: | 6:11 PM on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Film, Reproductive Rights, Seattle International Film Festival |
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Book Review: “Talk on the Wild Side” by Lane Greene shows how language is power
| Excerpt: | Lane Greene’s Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can’t Be Tamed came across, in its initial reading, as a scattershot collection of topics relating vaguely to the way the pronunciations, words, and grammars of languages will change with time so long as those languages continue to live and have people speak them. What makes the […] |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Sunday, April 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Book Reviews, Books |
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Book Review: Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Peter Watson's Fallout, which argues that "the atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between World War II allies". |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Sunday, March 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Books, Nuclear Proliferation |
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Documentary Review: Oscar winner “Period. End of Sentence.” is a must-see short film
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of the 2019 Academy Award winning film for Best Documentary Short, exploring the rarely discussed subject of menstruation. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Sunday, March 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Academy Awards, Films |
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2019 Oscars impressions: America got a shorter, more diverse ceremony to enjoy
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's impressions of the 91st Annual Academy Awards, which aired February 24th, 2019, on ABC. |
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| Published at: | 10:20 PM on Sunday, February 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Academy Awards, Film |
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Book Review: “The Empty Throne” makes a better argument for not having one
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership, by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 AM on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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Book Review: Kissinger is proof the adults in the room were “Reckless”, too
| Excerpt: | In the Mel Brooks parody “Space Balls”, the villainous character Darth Helmet brags to Lonestarr, the protagonist, that, “Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.” This trope appears in fiction often, and some writers rely on it almost entirely. The medievalist historian and culture critic Steven Atwell has observed that one of the central […] |
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| Published at: | 6:00 AM on Sunday, January 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Book Reviews, Books |
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Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination