Culture
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Wedding Bells & Jail Cells
The gay rights movement must be about more than the fight for marriage equality.
Kristian Williams
Culture
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
Culture
Death and Crossing
Too many migrants meet Santa Muerte.
Norma Price
Culture
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
Culture
Autopsy of an Auto Plant
The new book Punching Out is brilliant Detroit-style immersion journalism.
Steve Weinberg
Culture
‘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 L. Ewing
Culture
The End of Indie?
The difference between "mainstream" and "indie" music has almost disappeared.
Rachel Lears
Culture
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
Culture
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
Culture
Hull-House Museum: Open to the Counter-Public
The revolution lives at Jane Addams' historic old house in Chicago.
Andrew Oxford
Culture
Let’s Rethink Masculinity
Real men should be more than breadwinners.
Joan C. Williams
Culture
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
Culture
Stuff White People Do
How do justice-focused whites fit into the struggle against racism in America?
Micah Uetricht
Culture
Movin’ on Up
The Warmth of Other Suns gives the Great Migration the attention it deserves.
Eve Ottenberg
Culture
‘The Manchurian President’: Chicago’s Commie Liberal Puppet
The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well.
Chip Berlet
Culture
Once Upon a Time, in America…
The right has one fundamental advantage over its opponents: storytelling.
Michael Atkinson
Culture
‘There is Power in a Union’
The past, present and future of America’s labor movement
Steve Weinberg
Culture
Jailed Hikers: the Untold Story
The three Americans Iran has charged with espionage are not who you think they are.
Kari Lydersen
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