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Culture What Bette Davis Can Teach Donald Trump About Fake News
You are teaching a class on media literacy. You want your students to think critically about the truth claims of messages. You bring to the classroom Donald Trump and Bette Davis. You display a Trump tweet about our trade deficit with China: “The U.S. is losing $500 Billion a year…. Cannot continue!” You ask your…
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The Schmooze Clarice Lispector, ‘The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Like you, many of us at the Forward will be spending much of this weekend focused on Passover. As you prepare for the holiday, make time for some of the Forward’s most powerful articles about it: Founding editor Ab Cahan’s newly translated essay of his first Passover in America, Itzik Gottesman’s account of Eastern European…
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Culture It’s Not Cambridge Analytica We Need To Worry About, It’s Our Minds
The Cambridge Analytica furor, like the uproar over Russian penetration of Facebook that preceded it, has painted a bullseye on Mark Zuckerberg. I get why he and other social media CEOs are waffling about testifying at congressional hearings: They’re afraid that pictures of their oath-taking will remind people of the tobacco company executives in the…
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The Schmooze The Memoir Of A Nazi-Hunting Couple, ‘Silicon Valley’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Happy first weekend of spring! Much of the snow in New York City has melted; regrettably, it has mostly melted into impassable puddles. Nevertheless, spring is in the air, and the prospect of wet shoes shouldn’t keep you from venturing out to experience some of the weekend’s best culture. Read on. 1) Read What’s better…
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The Schmooze ‘Angels In America,’ ‘Louder Than A Bomb’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Yes, the days are longer now, the better to appreciate the various shades of green likely to overtake cities this weekend for St. Patrick’s Day. Never fear, you have ample reason to participate in the celebrations: Trust Seth Rogovoy, whose “Secret Jewish History of St. Patrick’s Day” reveals such interesting tidbits as the relationship between…
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The Schmooze Anton Yelchin’s Last Film, Ira Glass At RadioLoveFest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Astonishingly, it’s nearly spring; Daylight Saving Time kicks in on Sunday, and it’s almost possible to imagine what it might be like to no longer be cold all the time. (Yes, it’s true that last year winter extended practically through May in New York. Nonetheless, sunshine is nigh!) If you aren’t quite ready to embrace the…
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Culture If The Parkland Shooting Made You More Hopeful, You’re Not Wrong
I never imagined I’d hear first lady Melania Trump channel Norman Lear. On the other hand, I never imagined I’d hear “first lady Melania Trump,” so clearly anything is possible. Even the resurgence of American democracy! Let me tell you how I can talk myself into that. Feeling that nothing is possible – Groundhog Days…
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The Schmooze The Oscars, Mario Vargas Llosa’s Latest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
It’s Oscars weekend, and, for once, the often-predictable ceremony has the admittedly mild potential to be genuinely interesting. On the biggest night of Hollywood’s year, how will presenters, performers and award-winners address the ongoing revelations of pervasive sexual assault and harassment that began with The New York Times’s exposé on Harvey Weinstein? A surprising number…
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