Worth watching. More Perfect Union brings AOC to deep Trump country and finds a place where people can still agree: the system is not working for regular people.
This is the kind of conversation that matters — less cable-news theater, more working-class politics, material issues, and actually listening to people.
Darializa Avila Chevalier talks with HOT 97 about running for Congress in NY-13, democratic socialism, and fighting for Uptown NYC.
This is another good introduction to her campaign, her message, and why this race is worth paying attention to.
Claire Valdez talks with CBS New York about running for Congress in NY-07 and what her campaign is focused on.
This is a useful local-news introduction to her race, her message, and why her campaign is worth paying attention to.
Four stories about control slipping away: a psychiatrist pulled into illegal CIA experiments, a politician trying to survive a public scandal, a steelworker hunting for his brother in a collapsing industrial town, and a privileged New Yorker discovering that charm is not the same thing as adulthood.
Set during the CIA’s early-1960s MKULTRA experiments, a psychiatrist is recruited to run a secret LSD program inside a rural Mississippi mental hospital. The movie turns scientific ambition into a paranoid ethics test, asking what happens when state power treats human beings like lab equipment.
In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, a Louisiana congressman tries to fight for Gulf Coast residents before a sex scandal wrecks his Senate ambitions. Nicolas Cage plays the politician as a man caught between public service, private weakness, and the compromises that turn conviction into calculation.
A steelworker in a fading Pennsylvania mill town tries to hold his family together after prison, only to watch his younger brother disappear into bare-knuckle fights and violent debt. It is a grim, slow-burn revenge story about loyalty, economic ruin, and how grief can harden into a weapon.
A forty-year-old heir gets cut off by his parents, moves in with an old friend, and immediately falls for that friend’s girlfriend. Under the polished Manhattan comedy is a sharper question about privilege, self-invention, and whether a person can grow up after spending a lifetime insulated from consequences.
