By Ada Sussman, Opinion Co-Editor
• November 29, 2023
As "Anatomy of a Fall" unfurls, the film itself becomes a clinical investigation of our own scrutiny. The tight, vérité-style structure of the film allows the audience to become acutely aware of their status as spectators. And like cinema vérité, the film takes a solely observational role in the telling of the story, giving the audience no more information than the jurors.
This ideology of politicizing science — such as Trump’s politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic — already has and will continue to have large-scale consequences in the real world.
As most people can probably recall from their primary school days, the keystone of the modern scientific method is the premium it places on verifiable, replicable experimentation, useful for investigation...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Tuesday that juvenile court judges can now dismiss criminal complaints against juveniles if there is no evidence of probable cause before an arraignment...
When your country is in a state of emergency, all you want is answers. The U.S. government, the Bush administration specifically, strove to find those answers. So the U.S. government resorted to torture....
