
A brief history of Oscar protests
Protests, heightened ideological divides, a spike in hate crime: 2017 has got off to a rocky start, and many people are looking for a way to switch off from it all, if only for a few hours.
Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Protests, heightened ideological divides, a spike in hate crime: 2017 has got off to a rocky start, and many people are looking for a way to switch off from it all, if only for a few hours.
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