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Afflicted with a mental disorder, Carrie Mathison is an unlikely American hero, and seems a bad bet besides.

Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering tell The Nation what the military can do to prevent sexual assault.

Slut-shaming, name-calling and no respect: welcome to life in literary America for a 21st century female author.

How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime?

An unreliable anthropologist of traditional societies is a no less dubious diagnostician of the contemporary world.

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.