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via Netflix Amy Poehler’s new Netflix film Moxie is not perfect. But it is very, very good. It’s a smart, funny, entertaining look at how growing up female in 2020 is similar and different from growing up in the Sixties and Nineties, or any other time for that matter. Now we know what the prolific writer-director-actress Poehler has been doing between hosting Saturday Night Live, the Golden Globes, and myriad television and film projects! She has been crafting a heartfelt, humorous, painful sketch of teen society structured around high school life. Moxie is not one, but many character sk...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention March 10, 2021 12:25 PM CDT By Michael Berkowitz Isaac Woodard, Jr. with his mother, who reads to him the first major news article on his ordeal, printed in the July 13, 1946, edition of the Daily Worker, predecessor of People's World. At right, a clipping from inside the paper. | People's...

Frances McDormand in Nomadland. | Fox Searchlight Fern stands forlorn, surveying the desert before her. She is a small figure looking out over the beautiful, austere, infinite landscape. The desert is her own world writ large. She navigates that world in “Vanguard,” her turtle shell van remodeled to carry her few possessions on her back. She drifts toward temporary jobs as low-skill assembler and cleaner of other people’s messes at Amazon, Wall Drugs, and the Park Service, which support her and her road friends like Swankie, Linda May, and Dave (David Strathairn). They earn crumbs off t...

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Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in February 17, 2021 11:42 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz The new book 'Faith in the Masses' includes a range of topical and biographical essays from across the Communist Party USA's first century. Faith in the Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA, edited by Tony Pecinovsk...