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‘Armageddon Time’: Story of a volatile boyhood is often likable, but the boy isn’t

Highly personal period piece suffers from a sometimes bratty hero and some heavy-handed messaging.

Chicago Sun-Times

A new wave of celebrity politicians breaks the rules on acceptable behavior, inspired by Trump

After two former girlfriends accused Herschel Walker, the Georgia Republican Senate nominee and former football star, of pressuring them to get abortions, and giving them money for the procedures, Walker’s standing with conservative voters would have been expected to dip.

The Conversation

‘It’s do as I say, not as I do’: the lurid fall of evangelical pariah Jerry Falwell Jr

The catastrophic descent of the man who put his religious sway behind Donald Trump is explored in a new Hulu documentary

The Guardian - US

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Tammy Faye: A New Musical review – Elton John’s hymn to biblical kitsch

Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shears lyrics are sometimes overwhelmed by glitz

The Guardian - UK

Michael Hiltzik: Britain's prime minister followed the GOP's economic plan. She lost her job in record time

Fox Business talking head Larry Kudlow was over the moon on Sept. 23.

Los Angeles Times

Rap artists have penned plenty of lyrics about US presidents – this course examines what they say about Reagan and the 1980s

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Dems should be nervous about Kari Lake

"She is more likely than not to win her race for governor of Arizona," says conservative Rich Lowry

Salon

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Netflix Teams Up With the Obamas To Produce Big Government Propaganda

The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.

Reason

They perfected the "art of polarization"

Historian Nicole Hemmer talks to Salon about how Rush, Newt, Buchanan and an obsession with Clinton remade the GOP

Salon

BBC Antiques Roadshow viewers horrified by Margaret Thatcher teapot and it was worth a surprising amount

Manchester Evening News

US President Joe Biden brands Liz Truss's mini-budget a 'mistake'

Ahead of a meeting between Biden and Truss in New York last month he hit out at "trickle down" economic policies, associated in the United States with former President Ronald Reagan and Republicans.

Daily Record

What the 1970s Can Teach Us About Today's Inflationary Politics

Inflation is a problem for politicians. Unfortunately for them, it's not a problem they know how to solve.

Reason

From 'football' to 'biscuits': how Biden would launch nukes

Washington (AFP) - Doomsday could start with a football -- the so-called "nuclear football" as the attache case carried wherever the US president goes is popularly known.

AFP

The ‘October surprise’ and the November election in U.S.

Faced with an event that not only sets the political tone for the next two years but also the general framework for the showdown in 2024, Democrats have every reason to be concerned

The Hindu

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The Guardian - US

Why is trickle-down economics still with us?

This gonzo economic theory continues to live on, notwithstanding its repeated failures

WEKU

How Loretta Lynn, country music and a rural Republican tide changed U.S. politics

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan leanings of the music's most loyal fans.

The Independent UK

Historian admired by Truss says she completely misunderstood his work

Rick Perlstein says the Prime Minister missed the cynicism in his book The Invisible Bridge.

AFP

Four decades after shooting Reagan, John Hinckley seeks redemption through music

Williamsburg (United States) (AFP) - More than four decades after John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, the man who was acquitted of the crime on an insanity defense and subsequently hospitalized for 34 years is fully free.

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The Conversation

Liz Truss: a brief guide to her economic ideas and what the evidence says about them

For some, Liz Truss’s headline policies since she became the UK’s prime minister have been shocking. Markets have been shocked, voters have been shocked, and many of her own colleagues in the Conservative party seem a little uncomfortable.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: How did America get addicted to a policy that fails everyone but the rich?

Here's the central riddle of U.S. politics since the Great Depression:

AFP

US to impose 'further costs' this week on Iran over crackdown: Biden

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will place "further costs" on Iran in response to the violent crackdown against "peaceful protestors" in the country.

The Guardian - UK

Trickle-down Truss is carrying on the dirty work of Thatcher, Blair and Osborne

Britain has endured 40 years of decline thanks to this faulty economic theory. Will Keir Starmer finally kill it off?, says Yanis Varoufakis, leader of MeRA25 in Greece’s parliament

Salon

How the GOP weaponized ignorance

Satirist Andy Borowitz on deliberate dumbness in America, and how it became central to the Republican brand

Salon

Roger Stone and Jan. 6: Big news coming?

Did the master of Republican "black arts" finally go too far? It may be Roger Stone's time in the barrel at last

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Former Abscam Congressman ‘Ozzie’ Myers is headed back to federal prison — this time for election fraud

The last time former U.S. Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers stood before a federal judge to face sentencing in a bribery case, Ronald Reagan was president and Abscam — the 1970s scandal that sent Myers and a host of other elected officials to prison — dominated newspaper headlines.

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