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Back to the Orchard

Restoring a farm on Lake Superior with hard work and hard cider.

John Collins

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Orange Is the New Black Roundtable, Part 1: Why, Despite Ourselves, We’re Watching

Our panel of experts on how they got sucked into OITNB, and whether the show gets race right.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Dystopia, for the ‘Lulz’

In MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood explores fundamental questions and mutant pigs.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Rats in the Laboratory of Democracy

State legislatures are gaining power, but not for the people.

Chris Lehmann

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Orange Is the New Black, Episode 3: Trans Women and Mentally Ill Cartoons

In OITNB's most-talked-about episode, Sophia Burset explodes transgender stereotypes, and Crazy Eyes gets thrown under the bus.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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P.J. Harvey Gets Unmistakably Political

Harvey's new track pays homage to Shaker Aamer, who has spent 13 years in Guantanamo.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Tricky Dick’s Flicks

Before going to prison, three giddy Nixon staffers took reels of White House footage.

Michael Atkinson

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In the Dark About Light

Our streetlight problem.

Elizabeth Sanders and Seth Bensel

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A Brief History of Squatting

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space chronicles decades of Lower East Side occupations.

Arun Gupta

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The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk

Was the working class really the biggest proponent of the Vietnam War?

Bhaskar Sunkara

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Ecce Homo Sorkinia

The Newsroom is back, and it's as condescending (and, yes, sexist) as ever.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Gaga for Google

The Internship: a study in the psychology of mass digital conformity.

Chris Lehmann

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Psychonesia

Mass murderers reenact their crimes for fun in Joshua Oppenheimer's new documentary, The Act of Killing.

Michael Atkinson

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Extra Time

What to do with those 'golden years' after 80?

Jane Miller

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Hate Bait

The new Andrew Breitbart doc: for the perversely fascinated only.

Chris Faraone

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Geoengineers Gone Wild

Techno-entrepreneurs are funding sci-fi solutions to global warming.

Anthony Mangini

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In Defense of Dessert: The Case Against Austerity

Why cutting down doesn't pay off.

Chris Lehmann

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Really Bright Ideas

Britain's coalition government inflicts creative 'reforms' upon its people.

Jane Miller

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Tel Aviv Rorschach

The Attack, a tasteful thriller about a Palestinian suicide bombing, will please both sides of the divide. And that's its problem.

Michael Atkinson

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No Punches Pulled

A brilliant new graphic novel takes a nostalgia-free trip to the 1930s.

Paul Buhle

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We Need Bats

Don't discount their 'keystone role' in our ecosystem.

Dawn Starin

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The Violently Killed Femmes

From Hemlock Grove to Hannibal, TV just can't get enough of dead teenage girls.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Bring on the Trash

Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby gets the tackiness right, but the flappers wrong.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Powerball Trip

How a proposal for a socially conscious lottery panicked corporations and birthed the 9-figure jackpot.

Matthew Vaz