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Condors, Already F*cked, Get Fracked
Expanding fracking in a California condor sanctuary could kill an endangered species we've worked hard--and spent millions--to save.
Hannah Guzik

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A Cover Artist, Discovered—40 Years Later
Mingering Mike had all the requisites for a legendary music career, except the music.
Chris Lehmann

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Obamacare and Its Discontents
Steven Brill's new book outlines the shortcomings, as well as the accomplishments, of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Adam Gaffney

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In Jauja, Cinema Takes on Colonialism, Slowly
Viggo Mortensen and Lisandro Alonso tour Argentina's dark, imperialist past in a new film.
Michael Atkinson

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Big Data Is Watching You
The hidden price of Google, Twitter and Facebook.
Joanna Scutts

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Labour Pains
There’s a U.K. General Election in May and I don’t know how to vote.
Jane Miller

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I, Derivative Robot
In Chappie, Neill Blomkamp abandons his progressive instincts in favor of a trip through his DVD collection.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Dude Abides
Kent Russell seeks to lay claim to the raw, serious stuff of the American male past.
Chris Lehmann

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Despite a Rosy Lens, Timbuktu Has Something to Teach Us About Resistance to Oppression
Abderrahmane Sissako’s Oscar-nominated film may be improbably beautiful and relatively apolitical, but it's worth seeing.
Michael Atkinson

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Ai-jen Poo’s ‘The Age of Dignity’ Is a Wake-up Call for an Aging—and Unprepared—Nation
When it comes to providing care for an aging baby boomer population, Poo says, we need to think bigger.
Joanna Scutts

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Fresh Off the Boat: At Last, a Show Where Asian-Americans Aren’t the Butt of the Joke
In a welcome departure from most depictions of Asian families, Fresh Off the Boat pokes fun at the ignorance and blandness of white American culture.
Julia Wong

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Cuba’s Performance Problem
Havana closes down an open mic.
Coco Fusco

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The War on Billie Holiday
The Bureau of Narcotics' strange obsession
Johann Hari

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Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Class
Scott Timberg argues that we've lost the scaffolding of middle-class jobs—record-store clerk, critic, roadie—that made creative scenes thrive.
Joanna Scutts

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American Sniper: Guns, God and Gallons of Testo’
Clint Eastwood treats Iraq like Iwo Jima. Will Americans really go for this horseshit?
Michael Atkinson

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Drowning Cajun Country
Will the eaters of étouffée disappear along with the Louisiana bayou?
Kendra Pierre-Louis

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Slacking Workers of the World Unite
We've made an art of wasting time at work. But to what end?
Lindsay Beyerstein

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The 1950s: You Had To Be There
Post-WWII America was more complicated than we remember.
Jane Miller

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Brother, Can You Spare a Euro?
By posing the choice between a coworker's job and 1,000 Euros, Two Days, One Night explores the state of worker solidarity.
Michael Atkinson

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Land of the Free and Home of the Enhanced Interrogators
We need a truth and reconciliation commission to deal with our torture problem.
Chris Lehmann

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A Girlfriends’ Guide to Rage
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce has to stop trying so desperately to be a "women's show."
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Drug Shills Dispensing Pills
A psychiatrist questions Big Pharma's influence on her profession.
Jean Kim

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Reports from Inside First Look Media Suggest That Maybe Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Manage Journalists
Feverish speculation surrounds First Look's recent troubles. But perhaps the most obvious culprit is its reliance on truckloads of tech money.
Chris Lehmann

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Vampire Princess of Persia
Not your kid sister's vampire flick.
Michael Atkinson
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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