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How 'The Matrix Resurrections' evolved from an old folktale
CNN
The highly anticipated "The Matrix Resurrections" arrives this week as the somewhat unexpected fourth film in the trilogy, which began in 1999 with "The Matrix." That movie drew upon many influences, Roy Schwartz writes, but one source that has gone virtually unmentioned is folklore. Specifically, the legend of the golem of Prague.
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Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rely on the same institutional and procedural maneuvers they used during the first Trump term, and how much are they willing to wield their own wrecking balls?
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In less than a month in office the Trump administration has simultaneously dismantled foreign aid programs that support fragile democracies abroad and put on leave federal workers who protect US elections at home in a move that current and former officials say abandons decades of American commitments to democracy.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President Donald Trump key first-term political victories and deliver a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority. Now he’s the odd man out.