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Always Look on the Bright Side of Genocide

When did the Holocaust become morally ambiguous?

Michael Atkinson

Culture

A Real-Life Fairytale

Chris and Don examines a love that dared to speak its name.

Gary Barlow

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War Without Warriors

Robots have the perverse side effect of making war seem easy.

Chris Barsanti

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Watching The Watchers

Mass Observation returns for the Obama inauguration.

Brian Cook

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Not All Happy Families Are Nuclear

A new book chronicles experiments in domesticity.

Mandy Van Deven

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Wont Get Fooled Again

(Well … maybe just one more time.)

Brian Cook

Culture

In Mexico, Resistance is Futile

John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.

Kari Lydersen

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A Massacre in 3/4 Time

Waltz with Bashir is hallucinatory, relentless, and amazing.

Michael Atkinson

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Che the Man, Not the T-shirt

Soderbergh’s Che refuses to typecast the revolutionary.

Ben Kenigsberg

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The Truth Machine

Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?

Peter Kavanagh

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Jim Crow in the North

A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.

Lewis M. Steel

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Live Chat—Resistance Now!

Palestinian struggle goes viral

Michelle Chen

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It’s Not Easy Becoming Green

Van Jones lays out his plan for a green economy

David Roberts

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See Dick Squirm

New documentary chronicles legendary 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews

Kevin Canfield

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Inside the Shadow Factory

James Bamford's important new book details America's post-9/11 surveillance-industrial complex

Brian Beutler

Culture

Operation Infinite Imperialism

Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.

Robert S. Eshelman

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Milk Does the Man Proud

The first major Hollywood film portraying a gay historic figure, Milk pushes gays to come out and fight for equal rights

Gary Barlow

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Our Vampires, Ourselves

HBO's 'True Blood' is fangtastic

Laine Bergeson

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Closeted Russia

A LGBT film festival gets shut down in St. Petersburg, 15 years after homosexuality became legal in post-Soviet Russia

Julie Englander

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Moore Than You or Me

Slacker Uprising offers nothing new, but it will be worth something if it affects November's election

Michael Atkinson

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Through the Glasses Darkly

What if the between-the-lines Republican message (don't be afraid, there will be no real change) is the true illusion?

Slavoj Žižek

Culture

Toilet Ecology

The Big Necessity argues toilets and sewers are the key to improved sanitation. But reality is more complex - and toxic

Laura Orlando

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Punk Manifesto

Ben Terrall

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Sleepwalking Through Seattle

Brian Cook