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![In Avengers: Endgame, we see the price of political failure.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/2019_0514-avengers-endgame-400x300.jpg)
“Avengers: Endgame” Is a Liberal War Cry
It is through the Avengers that we see the price of political failure.
![Trump's "America First" policy is a classic divide-and-conquer strategy of capitalists and imperialists.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-130766445-400x300.jpg)
A New Socialist Movement Must Oppose Both Capitalism and Imperialism
Trump's “America First” policy is a classic divide-and-conquer strategy of capitalists and imperialists.
![Two versions of actress Lupita Nyong'o stand back to back](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/04/2019_0413-us-movie-400x300.jpg)
Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Middle-Class Guilt Trip
The terror in “Us” is not the pain of the “American Dream,” but the terror of not maintaining it.
![Surveillance capitalism is doing to human nature what industrial capitalism has done to our planet.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0402sc-400x300.jpg)
Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy
Surveillance capitalism is doing to human nature what industrial capitalism has done to our planet.
![The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0324-fbi-400x300.jpg)
The FBI Is the Enemy of the Left
The FBI's infiltration of the Left in the 1960s and ’70s should make us think twice about praising it.
![In one of many sweeping landscape shots, farmer Bob Comis feeds his herd.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2.jpg-In-one-of-many-sweeping-landscape-shots-farmer-Bob-Comis-feeds-his-herd.-Photo-credit_-The-Last-Pig-400x300.jpg)
“The Last Pig” Doesn’t Offer Any Easy Answers on Animal Farming
Allison Argo’s new documentary unravels the logic of small-scale pig farming.
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When We See the Sacred in Each Other, Social Movements Flourish
We must reclaim our impulse for an authentic collective sensibility that's been co-opted by the market system.
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It’s Possible to Face Climate Horrors and Still Find Hope
David Wallace-Wells, who catalyzed the climate emergency movement, examines likely outcomes of the crisis in a new book.
![The "Left Case Against the EU" fails to recognize the interconnectedness of workers in a globalized economy.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/02/2019_0210-eu-400x300.jpg)
The Left Cannot Afford to Ignore the Global Workers’ Struggle
The “Left Case Against the EU” fails to recognize the interconnectedness of workers in a globalized economy.
![Director Barry Jenkins attends a Build Series event to discuss his romantic drama film If Beale Street Could Talk at the Build Studio in New York City on November 28, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-1066246270-400x300.jpg)
In New Film, James Baldwin’s Art Makes Love a Revolutionary Act
“If Beale Street Could Talk” transforms love into an allegory of Black America’s struggle to survive.