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Pete Buttigieg's profile is rising within the Biden administration, thanks in part to passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.  As secretary of transportation, Buttigieg will play a key role overseeing how that money is spent. But that's not the only reason Buttigieg's being talked about lately. There's also…

The annual 50-state student government conference Boys State, sponsored by the American Legion, first came to filmmaker Jesse Moss’ attention after reading about the Texas edition in the Washington Post. At each summer’s conferences, boys gather to set up a mock-state legislature — they organize political campaigns…

The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol underscored the precarious state of American democracy in a time of deep political polarization. But the Emmy-contending Apple Original Film Boys State offers some hope that bridging ideological differences remains a possibility. The documentary directed and produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: With Oscar nomination voting underway, Apple TV+ is releasing an unseen portion of its documentary feature contender Boys State. The film, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, goes inside the annual Boys State event in Texas where a thousand high school…

UPDATED with video: The pressure was on when directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set about making Boys State, their film documenting an annual exercise in Texas that gives high school boys the chance to practice democracy in action. Why? The program lasts just six days. "We’re used to shooting documentaries over…