Culture
The Princess Complex
The toy and media industries have turned girls into "hypergendered" consumers.
Eve Ottenberg
Death and Crossing
Too many migrants meet Santa Muerte.
Norma Price
Get Angry: The Year’s 10 Best Political Docs
From Eliot Spitzer to Daniel Ellsberg, documentary filmmakers didn't lack engrossing subjects this year.
Michael Atkinson
The Babbitt of the Bobos
Is David Brooks America's most misguided pundit?
Chris Lehmann
Autopsy of an Auto Plant
The new book Punching Out is brilliant Detroit-style immersion journalism.
Steve Weinberg
‘Old Times There Are Not Forgotten’
Urban prison farming and the difference between reform and revolution.
Lisa Yun Lee
In Defense of the Public
We must not let the commons be privatized.
Eve Ewing
The End of Indie?
The difference between "mainstream" and "indie" music has almost disappeared.
Rachel Lears
The Politics of a New Metropolis
Fritz Lang's newly expanded dystopian classic looks better than ever. Its vision of humanity? Not so much.
Michael Atkinson
Eight Myths of Justice
Innocent Americans are routinely convicted and incarcerated. The new book False Justice explains how.
Steve Weinberg
Reading Gandhi in Budrus
A new documentary illuminates the power of nonviolent protest in a Palestinian village opposing the West Bank barrier.
Michael Atkinson
The Surreal World
Class anxiety, hyperconsumption and mocking the poor, for your viewing pleasure.
Jennifer Pozner
Hull-House Museum: Open to the Counter-Public
The revolution lives at Jane Addams' historic old house in Chicago.
Andrew Oxford
Let’s Rethink Masculinity
Real men should be more than breadwinners.
Joan C. Williams
Blood Stains Zimbabwe Diamonds
After a promising discovery, endemic corruption causes hope to fade.
Sam Gregory
The Fog of Jihad
The Oath, now out on DVD, brilliantly explores the muddy battle lines between the U.S. and al Qaeda.
Michael Atkinson
Stuff White People Do
How do justice-focused whites fit into the struggle against racism in America?
Micah Uetricht
Movin’ on Up
The Warmth of Other Suns gives the Great Migration the attention it deserves.
Eve Ottenberg
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