How the West may ensure its own doom — Over the past two decades, and following World War II, globalization has defined international relations. The victors of World War II founded regional and global alliances, such as the European Union and United Nations, in order to promote peace and economic cooperation. Independent states began to liberalize, cooperating with the…

Pop is in his blood. Shawn Mendes seems to know he’s famous. With three multi-platinum albums and two world tours, who wouldn’t? But if you already know you’re famous, and everyone else knows you’re famous…why self-title your third album? Usually, when an artist self-titles an album part-way into their career…

A study on how to put on a show. — Netflix’s Hollywood rewrites history to show how “everything and nothing has changed in Hollywood,” according to director Ryan Murphy. But the real social criticism of the show lies in the fact that it’s not a revisionist history at all. …

a poem — The birds appear to chat on the grassy moss patch that has crawled over the harbor at low tide like a map They bob their heads and ponder their eyes flicker but don’t wander as they fly back to their island homes in straw nests above the monsters. The moss…

The drama offers a darkly comedic take on suburban America There are few shows that outdo their source material. But by making the HBO Limited Series adaptation of the hit novel Big Little Lies glamorous and high-stakes, the talented cast creates a winning drama with humor to buoy its dark…

a poem The briny shore when the tide is low like terrain from another world gulls pick at the salty clam bed children step on the fish that are dead. Parents utter futile calls to bring the little ones back to the car they’ll eat in the kitchen with the TV on…

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a poem — I would live an American life if I had more lives but that is not who I am maybe if I’m reborn or if I was a cat I’d spend my life in a backyard catching helpless rats. But I have big questions the stars and stripes only answer the millions of…

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