6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (638+ words) A sober satire about urban development, bureaucratic cruelty and the crushing mystery of complicity. The post Hotel Romania appeared first on Truthdig. Shot entirely on an iPhone 15, Radu Jude's "Kontinental '25" is a modern fable about one woman's moral spiral in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (12+ words) Treating War Like a Video Game'Truthdig Treating War Like a Video Game...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (430+ words) The action star became the face of the early meme-o-sphere, but his reactionary politics were always the real joke. The post RIP Chuck Norris, Humorless Karate Conservative appeared first on Truthdig. Absurd humor and twitchy, mutant nostalgia were forces he…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (97+ words) Jeb'Lund'is a former political reporter and columnist for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Gawker, and a contributor to Esquire, GQ, The New Republic, Vice and The Washington Post, amongst others. He currently produces and co-hosts the Hallmark movies podcast'It's'Christmastown'and the…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (629+ words) More than a decade before Rosa Parks remained seated, the first Black heavyweight champion of the world refused an order to sit at the back of a bus station in the heart of Dixie." In the spirit of reclaiming Louis…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (304+ words) The following story is co-published with'Luke Savage's Substack. Take a look at the four images below and tell me what you see. I've incidentally been revisiting'Star Trek: The Next Generation," an older, less expensive show light years more imaginative than…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago  (8+ words) Repeating Past Military Mistakes'Truthdig Repeating Past Military Mistakes...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (308+ words) President Donald Trump's killing of a major ayatollah is a declaration of war on the world's 200 million Shiite Muslims. There will likely be significant security blowback from it. Despite the deaths at the top of the government, the state is…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1213+ words) They are revealing how communities learn to live with a pervasive atmosphere of violence." In this climate, women's rights have not been a priority. Kashmiri women are typically seen by society as pure victims" who are weak and vulnerable, Saiba…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (172+ words) When the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics drew to a close this past weekend, the digital air was thick with a familiar, deeply stupid outrage. As freestyle skier Eileen Gu stood on the podium, clutching her gold medal for the freeski halfpipe…...