“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” [Antonio Gramsci] A campaign team engages a battle-hardened American political consultant to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate. Jane/Bullock comes up with the slug line, “Our Brand is Crisis,” which ends up focusing the campaign and winning the vote. It's just business, as she says: That's the world, that's politics. That's how it works. It starts out with big... Read more →