The fundamental things apply: Casablanca in a time of Trump

What does this 75-year-old film have to do with the current political climate? From corruption to mass migration—a lot, it turns out.
Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine in the famous airport scene in the 1942 film Casablanca.
On Sunday, I went directly from watching America’s weekly brunch of undaunted panellists attempting to dissect the latest instalment of incomprehensibility from their rogue president to a Montreal matinée of Casablanca. For decades, Casablanca was a culty period piece—the ...

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