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Missed opportunities, roads not taken—these are the central themes of Stone's new documentary. 

Can the two central images of Poland during World War II—a country of heroes and a country of collaborators—ever be combined?

Paul Tough and Jonathan Kozol examine how decades of family-unfriendly policies have heightened the stress experienced by many children at home and school.

Why two artists use a printer to make paintings without using paint.

Chairman Ben Bernanke, who’s been sounding the alarm, is attacked constantly by the right. He and his allies need support from a mostly silent left.

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

Have histories of famines caused by totalitarianism become a distraction to the new politics of hunger?

Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Law in These Parts.