Spy parenting 101: Deadly decisions on “The Americans”
Characters Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are good parents. That is their baseline identity.
“Madame Butterfly”: The racial/sexual politics of cross-cultural concubinage
LA Opera's current production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" hits not only a homer, but a grand slam.
“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
Spies, lies, and glanders: “The Americans” season four premiere
Season four of FX's The Americans begins with a troubling image from character Philip Jennings' past.
Radical plots in our comics? Marvel goes there
Marvel Comics has often used its fictional universe as an allegory for real-life politics.
Political thriller with music about Japanese HIV scandal impresses L.A.
Fast moving, eye-catching, colorful, deeply affecting, cathartic, and redemptive.
2016 “Socialist Register” takes aim at politics of the global right
The Socialist Register has once again demonstrated why, after 52 years, it remains one of the premier international academic journals of the left.
