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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
Culture
Palestine Revisited
A brilliant new book redraws Gazan history.
Kristian Williams
Culture
The Oracle of Africa
Chinua Achebe reminds us that his continent's problems are as old as colonialism.
G. Pascal Zachary
Culture
Inhuman Resources
The real lesson of Up in the Air.
Emily Bauman
Culture
Escape From the Dismal Life
Raj Patel's new book explains the value of nothing, and everything.
Mark Engler
Culture
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
Culture
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
Culture
Nazis vs. Nature
A new film dramatizes a 1936 mountain-climbing contest--and prefigures the horrors of World War II.
Ralph Seliger
Culture
Are Millennials Cursed?
The jury is still out on whether the generation is narcissistic and disconnected.
Jeremy Rifkin
Culture
Finding Comedy in the Muslim World
Arabs are funny! A popular stand-up comedy festival in Jordan proves it.
Maysan Haydar
Culture
A History of Slander
A new book reveals what 18th-century French libelers and contemporary journalists have in common.
Eve Ottenberg
Culture
Losing Liberal Arts
Liberal arts education and the growing class divide.
Valerie Saturen
Culture
Our Coffee, Ourselves
The rise of Starbucks reveals how we really live, and it ain't pretty.
Richard Greenwald
Culture
Slaughterhouse-Five at Forty
Why Vonnegut's classic novel transcends the '60s.
Gregory Sumner
Culture
A Diplomatic Casualty of War
Matthew Hoh’s warning to Obama goes unheeded in Afghanistan.
Roger Morris and George Kenney
Culture
Empathy, Not Apathy
An open letter to my students.
Karla Jay
Culture
Assassinated by the State
The federally sanctioned murder of a Black Panther.
Salim Muwakkil
Culture
Good Grief
Opaque prose aside, Judith Butler's new book asks crucial questions about how we tolerate state-sanctioned death.
Kristian Williams
Culture
School’s Cool
If we are to revive American schools, we must stop dwelling on despair and celebrate the power of learning, a new book argues.
Eve L. Ewing
Culture
Harm Reduction: The Anti-Drug
A common sense approach to stopping unnecessary death.
Melinda Tuhus
Culture
Can the Rich Really Save Us?
Surprisingly, Ralph Nader says yes.
Pete Redington
Culture
Free Speech Radical
Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement.
Don Lazere
Culture
The Pillage People
One year after the Wall Street bailout, real reform of the financial sector is still a dream.
Roger Bybee
Culture
The Barney Frank Story
Not your average left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman.
Doug Ireland
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