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Still from 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'

Mira Nair's latest film includes a character who's a journalist and CIA agent. Is this responsible filmmaking?

West, TX

There ought to be a response to violence besides callous indifference and total social warfare.

Guantánamo Bay detention center

That’s the unanimous conclusion of a nonpartisan task force. It should teach us not to overreact to the Boston bombings.

US bomber

The United States has dropped millions of cluster bombs on other countries that continue to kill today.

Faneuil Hall

Whatever happened to quiet bravery and dignity?

ICE detention

As the country charts a new course on immigration, New York remains a beacon of hope.

Council members are working on an agenda that includes labor organizing, public transportation and giving legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.

New York’s housing crisis has pushed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers underground.

Stop Family Violence

America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale—at home.

As change nips at the edges of the Bronx, the borough’s iconic auto-glass workers continue their daily street-dance.

Blogs

The world's shortest reviews and more reflections on the Obama presidency.

July 16, 2010

Eric Alterman on pushing for a progressive Presidency.  Plus: Colin Robinson takes on Amazon.

July 16, 2010

Responses to Eric's marathon Obama article and an open letter to Benjamin Netanyahu.

July 15, 2010

I'd like to get away with a crime, too. How great a writer do I have to be to have the Swiss government protect me?

July 15, 2010

Afghanistan death toll, Pual McCartney and Obama, Greenpeace and Vuvuzelas vs BP, the new "Daily Show" video, Steinbrenner and the Palins, much more.

July 15, 2010

Even after all the "lamestream media" coverage, new data shows Sarah Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" video was largely ignored by her supporters and watched mostly by consumers of traditional media.

July 14, 2010

If a federal investigation's good enough for New Orleans, how about Oakland too?

July 14, 2010
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