Emad Burnat is the Palestinian director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, “5 Broken Cameras.” He is the first Palestinian to be nominated for an Academy Award. He traveled to the United States this week because the Academy Awards ceremony is this weekend. It is common for nominees to be in attendance. But on Tuesday night, US [...]

It is becoming widely accepted that the Occupy movement, which made headlines and changed the national conversation in the final months of last year, was largely dormant or in hibernation during winter. This conventional wisdom suggests that as late spring and summer approaches the United States is going to see a resurgence of Occupy movement [...]