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Growing Old Reconsidered

Reflections on the 'crazy' age.

Jane Miller

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Real Shallow Housewives

Orange County's pathological consumers deconstructed.

Moe Tkacik

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Gareth Edwards’ Monstrous Realism

Monsters explores the frontier of Americans' privileges and presumptions.

Michael Atkinson

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An Open Letter from an Artist to a Mexican Crime Cartel Boss

Globalization has gone wrong in Mexico.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Culture

Wedding Bells & Jail Cells

The gay rights movement must be about more than the fight for marriage equality.

Kristian Williams

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Friend Your Day Away: The Anti-Social Network

The Social Network and Facebook are seriously overrated.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

The Princess Complex

The toy and media industries have turned girls into "hypergendered" consumers.

Eve Ottenberg

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Death and Crossing

Too many migrants meet Santa Muerte.

Norma Price

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Get Angry: The Year’s 10 Best Political Docs

From Eliot Spitzer to Daniel Ellsberg, documentary filmmakers didn't lack engrossing subjects this year.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

The Babbitt of the Bobos

Is David Brooks America's most misguided pundit?

Chris Lehmann

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Autopsy of an Auto Plant

The new book Punching Out is brilliant Detroit-style immersion journalism.

Steve Weinberg

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‘Old Times There Are Not Forgotten’

Urban prison farming and the difference between reform and revolution.

Lisa Yun Lee

Culture

In Defense of the Public

We must not let the commons be privatized.

Eve Ewing

Culture

The End of Indie?

The difference between "mainstream" and "indie" music has almost disappeared.

Rachel Lears

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The Politics of a New Metropolis

Fritz Lang's newly expanded dystopian classic looks better than ever. Its vision of humanity? Not so much.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

Eight Myths of Justice

Innocent Americans are routinely convicted and incarcerated. The new book False Justice explains how.

Steve Weinberg

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Reading Gandhi in Budrus

A new documentary illuminates the power of nonviolent protest in a Palestinian village opposing the West Bank barrier.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

The Surreal World

Class anxiety, hyperconsumption and mocking the poor, for your viewing pleasure.

Jennifer Pozner

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Hull-House Museum: Open to the Counter-Public

The revolution lives at Jane Addams' historic old house in Chicago.

Andrew Oxford

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Let’s Rethink Masculinity

Real men should be more than breadwinners.

Joan C. Williams

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Blood Stains Zimbabwe Diamonds

After a promising discovery, endemic corruption causes hope to fade.

Sam Gregory

Culture

The Fog of Jihad

The Oath, now out on DVD, brilliantly explores the muddy battle lines between the U.S. and al Qaeda.

Michael Atkinson

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Stuff White People Do

How do justice-focused whites fit into the struggle against racism in America?

Micah Uetricht

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Movin’ on Up

The Warmth of Other Suns gives the Great Migration the attention it deserves.

Eve Ottenberg