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The environmental nightmare you know nothing about.

Hitchcock delighted in manipulating the audience. Early on Luis Buñuel learned to be satisfied with amusing himself.

Political analyst Joshua M. Landis explains why the Syrian president's recent concessions are too little too late for a burgeoning protest movement that's interested in more than piecemeal reform.

Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm.

Is the world really a stage?

The continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s.

David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Will the Afghan and Iraq wars lead to a surveillance state here in the US?

Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.

A single platoon lost in a military limbo is a measurement of the stress under which the US Army now operates.