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If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States. Popular culture, from Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, has continually positioned Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs.

Niclas Seydack erzählt warmherzig von einer kalten Zeit. Dauerkrise, digitaler Aufbruch und eine neue Sensibilität—während die Millennials erwachsen werden, ist die Welt mehrmals eine andere geworden. Nur Wetten, dass..? feiert immer neue Comebacks.

President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few people have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary.

Wonderfully narrated by Karen Chilton, Afrofuturism is an engaging, hip, and accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism. Author Ytasha Womack introduces listeners to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works.

For centuries man has feared the bat. Its seeming ability to traverse between the world has inspired tales of terrible horror but also stories of great hope. This is the tale of the age-old Bat Man from Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s creation in 1939 to Dracula and even further back into time than most realize. Re-live the rise of the Batman era, from the very beginnings to the modern age and in so doing understand how this creation has taken on a life of its own.