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The Impossibilities of Motherhood

For thousands of years, our culture has simultaneously venerated and insulted mothers.

Jane Miller

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What’s the Matter with Bill Maher?

The HBO comedian's brand of funny reeks of classist snobbery.

Chris Pepus

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Remain Calm About “Hysteria”

Silly and uneven, the new film touches on just how crazy our thinking is about women.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Deploying Urban Space

In Rebel Cities, David Harvey says places like Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park are key tools for revolution.

Margaret Garb

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I, Cyclops: Monocularity in a 3-D World

The future of cinema doesn't look good for the 700 million people who can't process 3-D films.

Michael Atkinson

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Dissecting the GOP Brain

Why can't Republicans handle the truth?

Theo Anderson

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HBO’s Female Regression Analysis: Girls and Veep

American pop culture teems with characters afraid of adult responsibilities.

Chris Lehmann

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A Superhero for the Ladies

The Avengers is wildly successful in part because it acknowledges women have brains—and are watching.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Reading Tolstoy in London

My friend Layrsa escaped Soviet privation, from Siberia to the Ukraine, to build a new life abroad. It's still a work in progress.

Jane Miller

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Blogging Sisterhood

How feminist blogs saved my life.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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In Search of Stripper Solidarity

Can professional dancers find workplace justice?

Rachel

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War and Popcorn

Serious war films are going extinct as Hollywood cranks out childish fantasies about heroism and violence.

Michael Atkinson

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A Civil Solution to Labor’s Problems

The key to reviving U.S. workers' fortunes may be as simple as amending the Civil Rights Act.

Louis Nayman

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Will Sanity Prevail on CBS?

It’s style versus substance for morning news shows. Guess which one is winning.

Kenneth Rapoza

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The Bungled Hunt for 9/11’s Mastermind: KSM

It took Washington 10 years to capture Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed, who will soon be charged with murdering 2,976 people. A new book reveals his shadowy story.

Steve Weinberg

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Rubes’ Gold in Sacks

The very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs executive exposes what most already knew: The firm is morally bankrupt.

Chris Lehmann

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Courage and Convictions

Would you actually risk your life for justice?

Jane Miller

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Adam Curtis: Conspiracist of Long-Lost Facts

The BBC producer/director's brilliant oeuvre is nothing less than astonishing.

Michael Atkinson

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The Never-Ending Crusade

No Americans were killed on U.S. soil by Islamic extremists in 2011. Why does Islamophobia persist?

Patrick Glennon

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A Childhood Exorcised

Jeanette Winterson's adoptive mother was like no other.

Sanhita SinhaRoy

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No Bark, Less Bite—That Dog Don’t Hunt

Are America's long-running culture wars drawing to a close?

Chris Lehmann

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There Will Be Paranoia

As long as there are dispossessed white people, there will be conspiracies.

Steve Weinberg

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The Second Coming of El Papa to Cuba

Pope Benedict XVI makes common cause with the Castro brothers.

Samuel Farber

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W.W.I: The War That Begat Another

The Lost History of 1914 shows how that year began to sow the seeds of Nazism.

Eve Ottenberg