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Death of a Hacktivist

A new documentary on Aaron Swartz.

Patricia Aufderheide

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Dimwits and the Dark Ages

Pervasive sexual violence has become a black eye for HBO's popular Game of Thrones series.

Katherine Don

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Mansplaining, Explained

How Rebecca Solnit articulated a millennia-old phenomenon.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Ambiguities of Care

As they grow older, women may find themselves once again enlisted as unpaid caretakers.

Jane Miller

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Is Harmon’s ‘Community’ Really Back in Harmony?

The season that followed creator Dan Harmon's return was more about him than about anything else.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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A Cubicle of One’s Own

Nikil Saval's new book, Cubed, shows us the future of the workplace.

Chris Lehmann

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Nymphomaniac: Lars Von Trier’s Masturbatory Fantasy

The two-part film feels like the work of teenage boy.

Michael Atkinson

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The Minor Leagues’ Major Malfunction

Curt Flood's landmark antitrust suit transformed the Major League, but the Minor League is still bound by archaic rules.

Chris Lehmann

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‘Game of Thrones’ Could Have Been Much Worse

HBO's hit series is making the best of its heavy-handed source material.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Judges Blind To Justice

Matt Taibbi's new book, The Divide, illuminates the corruption in our courtrooms.

Moe Tkacik

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Clever Girls

'Men or books?' These could be mutually exclusive choices for young women in 1950s Europe, as two new novels show.

Jane Miller

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For Cambodian Documentarians, a Conundrum

How do you show the past when the Khmer Rouge torched all traces?

Michael Atkinson

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The New York Lottery, Now Kid-Friendly?

A new ad blitz makes deceptive claims.

Matthew Vaz

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The Perils of Reading While Female

Alienated by sexism in 'Great Books' (cough, Kerouac), some women create a secret canon.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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How Will We Remember the First World War?

The centenary of the Great War has sparked some ugly debates in the U.K.

Jane Miller

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Let the Witness Speak

In Claude Lanzmann's new Holocaust documentary The Last of the Unjust, the line between right and wrong blurs.

Michael Atkinson

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Faux Vox Populi

Will Obama's promises to fix inequality turn out to be as hollow as Clinton's were?

Chris Lehmann

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Design And Punishment

Should architects draft more humane prisons?

Charlotte Silver

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Not Wasted on the Young

Instead of worrying about achievement, we should be ensuring the young get proper youths.

Jane Miller

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Throwing Satire to the Wolf

Scorsese's latest is a romp through vicarious amorality.

Michael Atkinson

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The Minimal Selfie

Narcissism goes digital.

Catherine Tumber

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Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 1.5: The 10 Most Boring Characters

Let's drop the pretense. Does anyone really care about Rose?

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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The Roots of the Tea Party

How conservatives came to dominate U.S. politics.

Melvyn Dubofsky

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Beck Is Back

What Glenn Beck and Malcolm Gladwell have in common.

Chris Lehmann