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Austerity Is Stranger Than Fiction
Filmed in Portugal in 2013 and 2014, Miguel Gomes' new documentary Arabian Nights tries to make sense of life under IMF rules.
Michael Atkinson
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Europe, A Love Story: Michael Moore’s Latest Film Tries To Sell Social Democracy to America
In 'Where To Invade Next,' Moore marches around Europe with a flag on his shoulder, to dubious effect.
Jeremy Gantz
Culture
The Blacklist in ‘Trumbo’ Didn’t Just Restrict Free Speech. It Changed How We Talk About Freedom.
Trumbo misses the opportunity to tell a more faithful, radical narrative of cinema's Red Scare and its resistors.
Andrew Paul
Culture
The Limits of Liberal Niceness in Aziz Ansari’s Master of None
Ansari and his character, Dev, genuinely want to do good. But they're missing the political framework.
Bhaskar Sunkara
Culture
The Wrong Kind of Solidarity: The UK’s Decision to Join the Air Strikes on Syria
Why bombing Syria in an attempt to weaken ISIS is not the answer to the Paris attacks.
Jane Miller
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The Great Academic Novel
At the ripe age of 50, John Williams' "Stoner" is getting the attention it deserves
Joanna Scutts
Culture
The Barriers to Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe
The contrasts between the lives of Europeans and the lives of refugees
Jane Miller
Culture
Trapped in the Prison of Right-Wing Pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s Paranoid Mind
A stint in the slammer convinced the conservative author that liberals are crooks, as he lays out in his new book Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party.
Chris Lehmann
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Love in the Time of 3D Boners
Do the genitalia in Gaspar Noé’s Love herald the rise or the fall of 3D cinema?
Michael Atkinson
Culture
How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became the Supreme Meme Queen
The psychology behind the 'Notorious RBG' phenomenon.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Culture
The Most Disappointing Thing About Submission Isn’t Islamophobia, But Its Tedious Sexism
Any nuanced discussion about the intersection of cultures in Michel Houellebecq's new book is buried under its tiresome narration
Chris Lehmann
Culture
The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe
Camilla Nielsson’s new documentary, Democrats, is a study in how a dictatorship can weather a 'democratic transition'
Michael Atkinson
Culture
When the Bank Robs You
Mehrsa Baradaran's How the Other Half Banks tells the history of banks robbing from the poor and giving to the rich--and explains how we can stop it.
David Dayen
Culture
How California Birthed the Modern Right Wing
Many of 20th-century conservatism's tricks were honed in 1930s agribusiness's fight against farmworkers
Chris Lehmann
Culture
Jeremy Corbyn Is Already Pushing the Labour Party to Fight Inequality and Injustice
Despite a seemingly endless torrent of attacks and gossip, Corbyn is building a real alternative to politics as usual in the UK.
Jane Miller
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Why Walking Down a Dark Alley at 2 A.M. Is Not ‘Asking For It’
In a new book, Kate Harding explains why dictums to avoid rape are part of rape culture--and do more to shame us than protect us
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Culture
The Surefire Formula for Doing Good?
The altruists profiled in Strangers Drowning have made huge personal sacrifices for others. But what should we make of their extremely individualistic approach?
Joanna Scutts
Culture
Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad and the Reactionary
Patrick McGilligan's unauthorized biography of the film legend, updated through 2015, suffers from bastard fatigue: There are just too many examples of Eastwood's perfidy.
Eileen Jones
Culture
In Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels, Women’s Rage Is Both Pardonable and Malevolent
The mysterious, wildly popular Italian novelist excels at crises and contradictions
Jane Miller
Culture
‘Welcome to Leith’ Charts A White Supremacist Attempt to Take Over a Tiny North Dakota Town
A new documentary by Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker explores a firefight between American individualism and the public good
Michael Atkinson
Culture
Who’s Behind the Smithsonian Museum’s $63 Million Ode to American Capitalism?
Just who you would think.
Chris Lehmann
Culture
Why the Youngest Country on Earth Can’t Escape the Yoke of Colonialism
'We Come as Friends' captures the Western exploitation of South Sudan from the moment of its conception
Michael Atkinson
Culture
Fall In Love with Your Job, Get Ripped Off by Your Boss
Miya Tokumitsu's sharp new book exposes the "Do what you love" fairy tale for what it really is: a means of exploitation.
Joanna Scutts
Culture
How an Anti-Austerity Protest Candidate Became the Frontrunner for Labour’s Leadership
Jeremy Corbyn's left campaign is shaking up UK Labour
Jane Miller
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