Sunday, March 7, 2021

Sunday Best: What happens when the heat abates

Biden's very presidential approach to policy.

President Biden said he wanted to take the heat out of American politics. This week proved why that mantra matters. On Saturday, Congress approved the biggest relief package in the country's history — the first major legislative accomplishment of Biden's presidency — demonstrating what's possible when ambitious policy takes priority over tweeting. Biden's "theory seems to be that if you can dial down the conflict, you can dial up the policy," our columnist Ezra Klein writes. And so far, that approach appears to be working.

— Jennifer Brown

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In 2020, The Times's award-winning Op-Docs series showcased independent short films from around the world that went beyond the news to immerse viewers in the personal stories and histories behind the headlines. In a film executive produced by Ava DuVernay, a Black composer and his grandfather traced their family's journey from Jim Crow Florida to Hollywood success. In a work The New Yorker's Richard Brody calls "an extraordinary look at a case of Freudian gaslighting," a filmmaker inspired by the #MeToo movement re-examined Freud's only major case study of a female patient, reimagining her as a young woman today.

Watch "A Concerto Is a Conversation" and "Hysterical Girl," two of the 10 films shortlisted for the Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Short Subject category.

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