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Paris (AFP) – Russia’s attack on Ukraine could herald a Cold War revival in Europe with two blocs armed to the teeth pointing nuclear weapons at each other across an iron curtain, politicians and experts say. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that Moscow’s assault on his country was “the sound of a new iron curtain…Continue Reading

WHEN DEWAYNE PERKINS was a teenager growing up on the South Side of Chicago, he would occasionally turn to Google in search of, if not himself, somebody who at least came close. What he found was a void. “I remember Googling gay comics and nothing coming up, especially gay Black comics,” says Perkins, whose blazingly…Continue Reading

Two hotly contested bills about race and gender lessons in Florida public schools took a step closer to becoming law on Thursday, as the Republican-dominated state House overwhelmingly approved the measures along largely partisan lines and sent them to the Senate.Both pieces of legislation — commonly referred to as the “individual freedoms” (HB 7) and…Continue Reading

Joe Wright’s adaptation of the musical “Cyrano,” starring Peter Dinklage in the title role, has lavish production numbers that fill the screen with gaily costumed dancers. It has grandly decorative set pieces replete with sumptuous period designs seemingly plundered from the pre-revolutionary storerooms of Versailles. Yet the film, which opens on Friday, doesn’t contain an…Continue Reading

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.In the past few years, it seems a floodgate has opened, releasing a deluge of tremendously successful media that centers the Black experience. “Get Out,” “Black Panther,” and HBO’s “Watchmen” are just…Continue Reading

A novel’s achievements can elude a careless reader. A film’s themes, or its plot, can be misconstrued by a lazy viewer. Only a video game, however, can punish an audience’s faults. If a player mistimes a jump, falls to an adversary, or fails to reach the end of a level, a game can deny them…Continue Reading

It’s been a terrible twelve months for voting rights in the United States. By the end of 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, at least nineteen states had passed a combined thirty-four laws that restrict access to voting, and legislators in at least twenty-seven states are currently working on more than two hundred and fifty bills that…Continue Reading

विभाजन के बाद भारत का जो आधुनिक इतिहास रहा है उसमें सबसे ज्यादा विस्थापन, खून, आंसू, अलगाव पंजाब के हिस्से आया है। पंजाब जिस खौफनाक मंजर से गुजरा है उसकी पीड़ा को फिल्मी संवाद के मजाक में उड़ा देना इतना आसान कैसे हो सकता है? ‘उनके लिए हम मैदान-ए-जंग हैंफतह हो या शिकस्त रौंदे हम…Continue Reading