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  • The Power Shows That Political Satire Hasn’t Lost its Spark

    The Power Shows That Political Satire Hasn’t Lost its Spark

    In The Power, the Prime Video adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s 2017 sci-fi novel of the same name, women begin to spontaneously emit electricity. Across the world, for seemingly no reason, young girls activate a latent organ–called a skein–in their bodies that allows them to generate and then direct electrical currents. They call this the power.…