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Pulaski Schools Superintendent Mel Lightner has denied that the tune played by the Pulaski High Schools "Red Raiders" was Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid."

Once I start wondering about our barbarous legal system, I can't stop.

A bold, do-it-yourself protest movement has arrived. When was the last time feminism was this much fun?

What's the point of having all those smart, social-democratically inclined secular citizens if, it turns out, they're self-satisfied creeps who will defend DSK?

The Schwarzenegger and Strauss-Kahn scandals have thrust the plight of the hired help into the spotlight. But usually these women are invisible, exploitable.

Her name was Global South. His name was Washington Consensus. But his winning streak was running out and her star was rising.

The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.

In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

In Evelio Rosero's The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.