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To restore the American Dream for the 99 percent, we must first bring the “invisible poor” out of the shadows.

An interview with Jonathan Schell, the unlikely oracle of Occupy Wall Street, on revolution, non-violent protest and more.

One month after the NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park, the lack of a physical space to occupy is creating divisions within the movement.

Terrence Malick's Tree of Life; David Balding's One Lucky Elephant; Kristen Wiig's Bridesmaids; Todd Phillips's The Hangover Part II.

For the Christian right, to reject a bigoted preacher is to deny "the right to pray."

This year's Whitney Biennial fails to address the question of which art pertains to our time rather than any other.

"There is such a thing as a moral atmosphere." So said Violet Gibson, the woman who shot Mussolini.

For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.

Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?