Arts and Entertainment

Bill Moyers: For Campaign Cash, TV Gives Back Nothing Bill Moyers: For Campaign Cash, TV Gives Back Nothing

The campaign season earns local television stations enormous sums of money. What should they give back?

Aug 14, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders

Daylight Answers: On ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Daylight Answers: On ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

A massacre in Aurora and the cinema of social hallucination.

Aug 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

How About Also Taking the Guns From the Cops? How About Also Taking the Guns From the Cops?

The hit BBC show Luther, not to mention real London police, are important reminders that you don't need a gun to be a good cop.  

Aug 1, 2012 / Blog / Cord Jefferson

Living With Disjunction: Manifesta 9 and Documenta 13 Living With Disjunction: Manifesta 9 and Documenta 13

Steeped in anthropology and art history, this summer’s big shows are occasions for talk instead of exploring art that reaches the unsaid.

Jul 24, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground; John Cassavetes’s Too Late Blues

Jul 24, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb

Lobbyists Bribed Congress With a Free Screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Lobbyists Bribed Congress With a Free Screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Are lobbyists using the new Batman movie as a form of bribery? Senator Leahy’s second cameo, and a special preview screening for staff, is a problem.

Jul 23, 2012 / Blog / Lee Fang

Rockers Renew Radicalism of Woody’s ‘This Land is Your Land’ Rockers Renew Radicalism of Woody’s ‘This Land is Your Land’

Tom Morello marks Guthrie’s 100th by restoring the left-wing verses of his most famous song.

Jul 13, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols

10 Comedians Who Aren’t Defending Rape Jokes 10 Comedians Who Aren’t Defending Rape Jokes

Funnily enough, not all comedians are defending Daniel Tosh’s rape jokes.

Jul 13, 2012 / Blog / Katie Halper

Breaking Bad’s Failed American Dream Breaking Bad’s Failed American Dream

The “most dangerous show on television” highlights our shredded social contract.

Jul 11, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Max Rivlin-Nadler

Woody at 100 Woody at 100

Woody Guthrie's influence was as profoundly felt as any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.

Jul 11, 2012 / Blog / Peter Rothberg

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