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The Great Trans-Frontier

Trinidad, Colo., is the 'sex change capital of the world.' A documentary now out on DVD explains why.

Jakob VanLammeren

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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

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A New Day for the New Deal?

Tony Judt diagnoses America's decline.

Melvyn Dubofsky

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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

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Springsteen’s Salvation

A new book reveals The Boss' enduring allure.

Theo Anderson

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Femivores in the Henhouse

Feminists debate the meaning of "chicks with chicks."

Members of WAM!

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A Soft Focus on War

How Hollywood hides the horrors of war.

Slavoj Žižek

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Notes From the Frontier of New Orleans

Trying to understand the Sixth Ward's screams.

Woodlief Thomas

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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

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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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Back Then in Baghdad ... And Now?

On the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a remembrance of what once was.

Idious Buguise

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Palestine Revisited

A brilliant new book redraws Gazan history.

Kristian Williams

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The Oracle of Africa

Chinua Achebe reminds us that his continent's problems are as old as colonialism.

G. Pascal Zachary

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Inhuman Resources

The real lesson of Up in the Air.

Emily Bauman

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Escape From the Dismal Life

Raj Patel's new book explains the value of nothing, and everything.

Mark Engler

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On Air With Black America

Chicago's only black-owned talk radio station gives voice to a complex people still struggling to be heard.

Salim Muwakkil

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A Military Murder

In 2003, four U.S. soldiers were charged with brutally murdering another member of the Army. A new book examines what happened, and why.

Kari Lydersen

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Nazis vs. Nature

A new film dramatizes a 1936 mountain-climbing contest--and prefigures the horrors of World War II.

Ralph Seliger