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International audience Given the considerable breadth of possibilities that crime and criminals evoke in cinema, there is no question of prioritizing a certain theme or approach. On this subject, it was possible to treat screen adaptations of important trials and crimes that shocked the public, to establish historical relationships and correlations between the criminality of one time period or one country and its current on-screen representation, or to concentrate on one or two films more in detail. Cinematographic representations of crime could interest any area of the human sciences (such as sociology, anthropology or psychology), but also film analysts and, of course, criminologists. From the beginning of cinema to the most recent releases, from statistical analysis to aesthetics, from the general to the particular, from one country to another, the variety of approaches and themes shows the potential of this subject.

Zusammenfassung eines Gesprächs der Middle East mit zwei in London im Exil lebenden kuwaitischen Oppositionsführern, Ahmed Khatib (Kuwaiti Democratic Movement) und Jassem Al Qatami (Patriotic Movement) über deren Einschätzung der Golfkrise und der innenpolitischen Entwicklung in Kuwait. (DÜI-Sdt)

If you are interested in a detailed and careful explanation of the charges at issue in United States v. Trump (the recent indictment of the former president in relation to his effort to overturn the results of the election), the way that the alleged facts related to those offenses, and the relatives strengths and weaknesses of the most likely defenses...well, this is the show for you. Though co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney originally planned to discuss an array of topics in addition to reviewing the latest indictment of the former president, they ended up spending the entire hour on this one.

What is capitalism? What is it we are for, if we are for it? Or against, if we are against it? As we use the term today, it generally refers to a kind of economy, variously characterized by private industry, free enterprise, competitive markets, and lots of investment opportunities, which most people believe are valuable parts of the way we live together. But during the 1830s and 1840s, in the run-up to the revolutions of 1848, when the term "capitalism" first began to appear frequently, it signified neither a social system nor a "mode of production" but a politics—the concerted attempt by capitalists and their allies to secure the political power they needed to ensure that their interests took precedence over those of everyone else, including landowners, small businesses, wage earners, and even taxpayers more generally.