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  • 2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Daniel Engber

    American Masters, an award-winning documentary series in its 39th season on PBS, promises to tell “compelling, unvarnished stories” about the nation’s most important cultural figures. The program’s most recent story, though—Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, about the cartoonist-author of Maus, the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel depicting the Holocaust, and a self-described “poster boy for books being censored”—seemed to need a bit more varnish on its approach to Donald Trump.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Daniel Engber

    11 hours agoEarlier this month, the city of Santa Monica announced plans to turn the beleaguered Third Street Promenade into a so-called “entertainment zone,” where visitors 21 and older can consume alcoholic beverages out in the open air, unconfined. Much like, say, Las Vegas or New Orleans, well-behaved …

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Daniel Engber

    The court's split means an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling barring the state from approving a Catholic charter school remains in place. WASHINGTON — Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first religious public charter school after the Supreme Court on Thursday deadlocked 4-4 in a major case …

  • 2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Daniel Engber

    The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins comes in many forms. Here is Donald Trump’s: A scientist in Wuhan walked outside to have lunch, maybe with a girlfriend or something. “That’s how it leaked out in my opinion, and I’ve never changed that opinion,” the president said earlier this month at a press event. Whether something like this really happened was, until this year, a subject of lively debate. These days, it’s being presented as official history.

  • 1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Daniel Engber

    On March 25, the veteran film producer Erika Dilday spoke at a documentary conference in Copenhagen, on a panel addressing the many challenges, political and otherwise, that now face nonfiction-film distribution. “Even though it’s terrifying, it’s also incredibly energizing,” Dilday, the executive director of the nonprofit that produces PBS’s long-running, Emmy-winning series POV, told the audience.

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