From a bruising presidential battle to bloody mayhem on the streets, America seems to be reliving the conflict of 1968, and it’s time once more to challenge injustices, writes Maurice Isserman    

In a year that has taken David Bowie, Prince, Merle Haggard, Guy Clarke, Alan Rickman, Caroline Aherne, and Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, one of the great anti-war books, it might be a tad difficult to get the deserved recognition for film-maker Michael Cimino, who died in Los Angeles aged 77, on Saturday. 

Jason Sheehan