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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has a reputation for tackling difficult material about America's troubled past with projects like “Selma” and “When They See Us.” “Origin,” her adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson's best-seller “Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents,” may be her most ambitious venture to date. “This breaks every script rule, every filmmaking rule that I know,” DuVernay tells David Remnick. Plus, reporter John Nichols discusses what it's like to be swept up in a January 6th conspiracy theory and former President Trump's legal defense in the federal case against him.
Ava DuVernay wants her movie 'Origin' to influence the 2024 election
The acclaimed director returns with a provocative new film intended to provoke a political response.
How journalist John Nichols became another January 6th conspiracy theory target
Based in Wisconsin Nation the reporter was not at the Capitol when he was attacked. That didn't stop Donald Trump's lawyers from holding him responsible.
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