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A Bronx School Tale
A new book shows how grassroots community organizing and persistence turned around one of the country's most corrupt school districts.
Louis Nayman
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King of the Crazy Suit
Meet Jonathan Lee Riches, the most litigious man in history.
Beau Hodai
Culture
Social Media: Peril + Promise
Will social networks change our world, or just reinforce it?
Deanna Zandt
Culture
Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest
In his last book, the late, great historian—and former bombardier—examines his troubling actions during W.W. II.
Micah Uetricht
Culture
Agora Phobia
A new film about ancient religious conflict resonates, but fails at the box office.
Ralph Seliger
Culture
Todd Solondz’s Dystopia in Suburbia
In his sixth film, Life During Wartime, the film director offers another twisted modern fairy tale that revels in taboos.
Michael Atkinson
Culture
Female Rail Tale
Linda Grant Niemann goes beyond clichés to show what it's really like to work on the railroad.
Mike Matejka
Culture
Virtually Conservative
Most video games—in which you accumulate stuff and/or dominate the world—are the opposite of progressive.
Michael Atkinson
Culture
The Great Trans-Frontier
Trinidad, Colo., is the 'sex change capital of the world.' A documentary now out on DVD explains why.
Jakob VanLammeren
Culture
Working on a (Temp) Dream
Welcome to the freelance economy, where workers are atomized, badly compensated and strangely optimistic.
Richard Greenwald
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‘So Is She Gay?’
Whether or not Elena Kagan is a lesbian shouldn't distract us from a simple fact: America isn't ready for an openly gay Supreme Court judge.
Jeremy Gantz
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Networking the Neighborhood
A Vermont town reinvents the Net.
Bill McKibben
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Organizing for the Impossible
Si Kahn's new 'guide for rabble-rousers' challenges community organizers to think very carefully about their campaigns for justice.
Adam Kader
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Plight of the Living Dead
The strange longevity of George A. Romero's zombies.
Michael Atkinson
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Stop Loss Blues
After superior officers heard his song 'Stop Lossed,' hip-hop artist Marc Hall was arrested and discharged from the U.S. Army.
Nan Levinson
Culture
A New Day for the New Deal?
Tony Judt diagnoses America's decline.
Melvyn Dubofsky
Culture
Studs Terkel: 96 Years in 40 Minutes
Eric Simonson's new film portrait of the ubiquitous journalist and author comes up short on complexity.
Dan Dineen
Culture
Springsteen’s Salvation
A new book reveals The Boss' enduring allure.
Theo Anderson
Culture
Femivores in the Henhouse
Feminists debate the meaning of "chicks with chicks."
Members of WAM!
Culture
A Soft Focus on War
How Hollywood hides the horrors of war.
Slavoj Žižek
Culture
Notes From the Frontier of New Orleans
Trying to understand the Sixth Ward's screams.
Woodlief Thomas
Culture
The Spanish Soccer War
When FC Barca and Real Madrid face each other on April 11, Spain's political history will loom large.
Pete Redington
Culture
‘Rebound City’ Hustle
Preachers of post-industrial revivalism say the future can be bright for dying manufacturing towns. Too bad their formula for rebirth doesn't work.
Roger Bybee
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Jim Crow Redux
Is mass incarceration the 'new racial caste system'?
Micah Uetricht
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