Culture

War Without Warriors

Robots have the perverse side effect of making war seem easy.

Chris Barsanti

Watching The Watchers

Mass Observation returns for the Obama inauguration.

Brian Cook

Not All Happy Families Are Nuclear

A new book chronicles experiments in domesticity.

Mandy Van Deven

Won’t Get Fooled Again

(Well … maybe just one more time.)

Brian Cook

In Mexico, Resistance is Futile

John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.

Kari Lydersen

A Massacre in 3/4 Time

Waltz with Bashir is hallucinatory, relentless, and amazing.

Michael Atkinson

Che the Man, Not the T-shirt

Soderbergh’s Che refuses to typecast the revolutionary.

Ben Kenigsberg

The Truth Machine

Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?

Peter Kavanagh

Jim Crow in the North

A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.

Lewis M. Steel

Live Chat—Resistance Now!

Palestinian struggle goes viral

Michelle Chen

It’s Not Easy Becoming Green

Van Jones lays out his plan for a green economy

David Roberts

See Dick Squirm

New documentary chronicles legendary 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews

Kevin Canfield

Inside the Shadow Factory

James Bamford's important new book details America's post-9/11 surveillance-industrial complex

Brian Beutler

Operation Infinite Imperialism

Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.

Robert S. Eshelman

‘Milk’ Does the Man Proud

The first major Hollywood film portraying a gay historic figure, Milk pushes gays to come out and fight for equal rights

Gary Barlow

Our Vampires, Ourselves

HBO's 'True Blood' is fangtastic

Laine Bergeson

Closeted Russia

A LGBT film festival gets shut down in St. Petersburg, 15 years after homosexuality became legal in post-Soviet Russia

Julie Englander

Moore Than You or Me

Slacker Uprising offers nothing new, but it will be worth something if it affects November's election

Michael Atkinson