Political and civil unrest articles
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In trying to hedge its politics, 'Civil War' betrays its characters — and the audience
Director Alex Garland is out to prove that you can make a movie about a modern American civil war without getting political. And he wants to do it in an election year. The question is: Why? His new film “Civil War,” which opened Friday, follows an unlikely group of journalists as they make their way from New York to Washington, D.C., as the rebel "Western Forces," made up of California and Texas, close in on the capital. Two of those journalists — Lee (Kirsten Dunst), a legendary conflict...
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How Alex Garland's Civil War offers a warning about the US political divide
The action film imagining a near future in which the US has descended into chaos is the year's most controversial film so far – and the polarised response is just as interesting.
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Hong Kong loses 10,000 civil servants amid political crackdown
Government talent programs have yet to bear fruit, as brain drain from once-prestigious jobs persists.