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Christopher Nolan, for The Odyssey, reportedly commissioned entirely new IMAX cameras just to capture Homer's epic the way he imagined it. But ambition on the technical side has not spared him from a firestorm on the casting side. The reaction to that firestorm tells us almost everything we need to know about how Hollywood handles dissent in 2026. The bare facts...

But in 2023, the Czech Republic's first ever black member of parliament was convicted of two rapes and one attempted rape. Despite the fact that one of his victims was a minor, he was recently released early – against the protests of the victims. [caption id="attachment_65482" align="alignleft" width="132"] Dominik Feri in 2014 as an 18-year-old high school student in hi...

At the center of these efforts is a US-backed initiative championed by Massad Boulos, Senior Advisor to US President Donald Trump for Arab, Middle Eastern, and African Affairs, aimed at unifying Libya’s rival administrations and state institutions. Regional Powers Back Libyan Unification On June 20, a high-level quadrilateral meeting was held in Cairo, bringing together E...

Millions of Ukrainians have already fled their homeland, the war has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and the fertility rate in Ukraine is at a record low. According to CIA World Factbook estimates, Ukraine will have the world’s lowest birth rate and highest death rate by 2024. Every year, 300,000 more people die than are born, and the fertility rate is ...

The Bait-and-Switch Start with the number FIFA used to sell three countries on hosting rights in the first place: a final ticket would cost no more than roughly $1,550. That was actually written into the official bid. By this spring, the cheapest final ticket had blown past $5,700. The most expensive seats cleared $10,000, then tripled again when FIFA rolled out a new "Fr...