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  • Summer of the Superhero

    Adam Howard : Arts, Culture, & Entertainment

    Superhero-themed films are dominating the summer box office. Is it just about the bottom line or our national longing for genuine heroism?

  • Torturing Iron Man

    Nick Turse : Afghanistan

    The Pentagon does a star turn in Iron Man, and the summer blockbuster turns the realities of the war in Afganistan upside down. Will anyone notice?

  • Why War, Inc. Works

    Jeremy Scahill : Iraq War

    John Cusack's War, Inc. takes on a seldom-discussed aspect of the occupation: the corporate dominance of the US war machine.

  • Guantánamo Ain't No Joke

    Shayana Kadidal : Civil Rights & Liberties

    Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.

  • Her Good Thing

    Nathaniel Friedman : Music

    The versatile vocalist Mable John, now a novelist and minister, has come a long way since the 1960s soul era that made her (almost) famous. Subscribe

  • Phil Donahue's War

    John Nichols : Iraq War

    His new documentary is breaking the taboo that says Americans cannot stomach the reality of the Iraq War.

  • Un Ballon Est un Ballon

    Stuart Klawans

    In Flight of the Red Balloon, filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien takes on an unmistakably Parisian story with unbridled creative abandon.

  • Fitna's Hateful Crusade

    Aziz Huq : Islam & Muslims

    The new film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders is the latest in a series of stunts aimed at humiliating and scapegoating Muslims.

  • Tracing Slavery's Past

    Te-Ping Chen : History

    On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.

  • The Film We Dreamed

    Charles Taylor : Books

    In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.

  • Charlie Wilson's War--and Ours

    Robert Scheer : Pakistan

    Unlike the plot of the latest Tom Hanks film, the blowback price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. And even Hollywood can't put a pretty face on that one.

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