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Maria Hurtado

The Film ‘No Más Bebés’ Gives Reproductive-Justice Advocates Fuel for Today’s Fights The Film ‘No Más Bebés’ Gives Reproductive-Justice Advocates Fuel for Today’s Fights

The forced sterilizations depicted in the movie are anything but ancient history.

Feb 5, 2016 / Dani McClain

Vladimir Sorokin.

Vladimir Sorokin’s Absurdist Excess Vladimir Sorokin’s Absurdist Excess

Even the Russian author’s most sincere explorations tend toward brutal deadpan satire, cartoonish extremes of violence, comically unsexy sex, and flatulence.

Feb 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich

Lawrence Alloway at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, autumn 1965.

In Praise of Lawrence Alloway In Praise of Lawrence Alloway

The former Nation art critic was a great intellectual resource among art writers in the 1960s and ’70s, and a revival of his work is under way.

Feb 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Puzzle No. 3389

Puzzle No. 3389 Puzzle No. 3389

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Feminist pioneer’s garments, with some pieces reused (8,6)  8 Term heard at the card table—or in presidential polit…

Feb 4, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Students at at the University of Missouri

In the Wake of Mizzou, Black Students Are Winning In the Wake of Mizzou, Black Students Are Winning

The movement that took flight in November is racking up wins—and laying the groundwork for more victories to come.

Feb 3, 2016 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Aaron Swartz in 2012.

The Trials of Aaron Swartz The Trials of Aaron Swartz

A collection of Swartz’s writings is a record of a mind thinking, beautifully, against itself.

Feb 3, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ava Kofman

A scene from Rabin, the Last Day.

Israel’s Willful Blindness Israel’s Willful Blindness

Two films explore why the Israeli peace movement collapsed, and, taken together, might advance you toward an answer.

Feb 3, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Anti-War Protesters in Congress

What Can Today’s Peace Movement Learn From Vietnam? What Can Today’s Peace Movement Learn From Vietnam?

The best way to protect American lives is to refuse to take sides in someone else’s civil war.

Feb 2, 2016 / Ira Chernus

The Repeating Barrio

The Repeating Barrio The Repeating Barrio

The 2014 film Canción de Barrio tells a dark story about those who are being left out of the promises of liberty and prosperity in the new Cuba.

Feb 1, 2016 / Sujatha Fernandes

Hamtramck mural

What’s Life Like in America’s First City With a Muslim-Majority City Council? What’s Life Like in America’s First City With a Muslim-Majority City Council?

While the media highlight “conflict,” residents say there’s not much ethnic tension worth mentioning.

Feb 1, 2016 / Tom Perkins

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