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Author: Will Meyer

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What Comes After Resistance?
May 26, 2017
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

Flint, Beyond the Crisis
May 26, 2017
To call what is happening in Flint, Michigan a “water crisis” feels both exact and not. I’m not sure there’s other language that is as definite, short, and sharp for what was a massive institutional failure on many levels, spanning several years. The story, well ...

Trump’s Family Leave Shell Game
May 24, 2017
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

Looking for Twin Peaks
May 24, 2017
It is a curious thing to try to go to a fictional place. David Lynch’s 1990 series Twin Peaks exploded expectations about television—its darkness, deadpan humor, and sheer oddity was a dramatic shift from the standard small-screen fare of the time. The setting was a small ...

Repair Work
May 19, 2017
Perhaps as a function of main star’s burgeoning shallowness, this year’s Master of None excels more in featuring solo players.

Fascism for Dummies
May 19, 2017
Would the Holocaust have happened if Moe Howard was Chancellor of Germany? The Gulag, if Stalin was swapped out for Stan Laurel?