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Kim Jong-un, Dictator of North Korea and BFF of Dennis Rodman, Threatens to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the United States (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
The Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams (Foreign Policy, History)
Eric Alterman
Greece Ongoing Crisis Picture
No Exit? Greece's Ongoing Crisis (Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Disaster Capitalism, Economics, Economic Development, Economic Policy, History, Non-fiction, Economy)

How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

Mark Mazower
What Did Clausen See (Poems)
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Armenian genocide demonstration picture
Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam (Books & Arts, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, History, Non-fiction, World)

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

Holly Case
A Personal Application of Sequestration (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Portrait of A.B. Yehoshua
Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Fiction, Literature, Books and the Arts)

The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.

Vivian Gornick
Painting Detail of Thomas Nozkowski's, Untitled (9-15) (2012)
Endless Representation: On Giorgio Griffa and Thomas Nozkowski (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, Fine Art, Books and the Arts)

Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.

Barry Schwabsky
Photo of Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce
Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz (Books & Arts, Science, Biography, Genetics, History, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts, Environment)

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

Brenda Wineapple
Photo of Photo Booth Metro Station Montreal, Quebec
Shelf Life (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, Film, Fine Art, Photography, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.

Lucy McKeon

Blogs

This Week in 'Nation' History: Reviewers Have Argued About 'Gatsby' Since 1925
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The debate surrounding Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is nothing new.

May 18, 2013
Why Does the Press Still Take the Heritage Foundation Seriously?
Eric Alterman

The think tank has long since compromised its intellectual integrity, yet the media continue to trumpet flawed reports like the latest one on immigration reform.

May 10, 2013
When Eleanor Roosevelt Got MGM to Fire Lionel Barrymore From a Pro-Bomb Epic
Greg Mitchell

 Another unusual fact about MGM's planned 1947 film on Truman and the bomb.

May 5, 2013
The Bush Presidency, Undead
Eric Alterman

With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.

April 26, 2013
'Cape Fear,' and Our Fear
Rick Perlstein

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett's Pleasure Anthem
Chloe Angyal

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013
Give Me the Bad News First
Eric Alterman

Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.

April 18, 2013
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Leslie Savan

Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.

April 5, 2013
The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media
Rick Perlstein

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013
Alex Gibney Interview on Early Media Controversy Over His WikiLeaks Film
Greg Mitchell

Julian Assange himself has criticized the film, but the director says Assange should watch it first.

April 3, 2013
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