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Dec 17, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Jorge Cotte
Books & the Arts / Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer. Why did the great Mexican filmmaker make a soapy thriller? Ad Policy This article appears in the January 2025 issue. Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuarón’s new series on Apple TV+, is about narrative and its relationship to truth. The series is, at its core, a simple melodrama, but its layers of excessive voiceover tend to reduce narrative to literal narration.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Jorge Cotte
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here.
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May 21, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Jorge Cotte
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. The Sympathizer’s voice-over narration continually reminds us that we are watching an imperfect retelling. The Captain gets ahead of himself, has to double back and re-explain.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Jorge Cotte
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Villaneuve compacts the storyline for clarity, keeping the most essential portions, if losing some of its intricacies. Yet some important elements get lost in the cuts.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Joan Walsh |John Nichols |Jorge Cotte |Chris Lehmann
Let’s stipulate right away: Florida’s new guidelines for teaching African-American history do not merely consist of the noxious, specious claim that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” There are 190 other “facts” included in the guidelines, and arguably none are as false and loathsome as that one (though a few come close).
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Andrea Mazzarino |Michael Massing |Sarah Baum |Jorge Cotte
Seeking news coverage aboutthe Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life that sank in mid-June off the coast of Greece, I googled “migrant ship” and got 483,000 search results in one second. Most of the people aboard the Adriana had drowned in the Mediterranean, among them about100 children. I did a similar search forthe Titan submersiblewhich disappeared the same week in the North Atlantic.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jeet Heer |Michael Massing |Sarah Baum |Jorge Cotte
Dr. Strangelove’s big mistake was going into government work when he could have made much more money in the private sector doing the same job of making the apocalypse palatable. Strangelove—the eponymous antihero of Stanley Kubrick’s lacerating and immortal 1964 film—is a satirical embodiment of the mad logic of nuclear brinksmanship codified under the rules of mutual assured destruction.
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jorge Cotte |Mike Konczal |Sarah Baum |Mychal Denzel Smith
This article appears in the August 7/14, 2023 issue. “All art is propaganda,” says Walton Goggins in I’m a Virgo, Boots Riley’s new Amazon Prime Video series. Goggins plays the show’s villain, a billionaire comic book mogul named Jay Whittle, aka The Hero, who uses his money and tech to fund a one-man war for law and order. He’s Batman if Batman published DC Comics and used his empire to popularize and vindicate his own vigilante efforts.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jorge Cotte |John Nichols |Mychal Denzel Smith
J. Robert Oppenheimer made his greatest contribution to physics in 1939. It was three years before he met Gen. Leslie Groves, three years before they built a town in the New Mexico desert, and three years before they recruited thousands of scientists and their families to live in that desert town where they worked toward a single-minded goal: a weapon of such destructive power that it would end World War II, perhaps even all wars.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Katie Redford |Michael Massing |Jorge Cotte |Gene Seymour
On May 31, Atlanta SWAT teams with riot gear and battering rams broke down Marlon Kautz’s door. Police dragged Kautz and two colleagues to jail in their pajamas, charging them with money laundering and charity fraud. Kautz, Adele MacLean, and Savannah Patterson, are volunteer board members of the Network for Strong Communities Inc., which was incorporated in 2020. Through it, they are able to raise funds for the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF).
