Burned Out
Stuart Klawans : Film Reviews
The Coen brothers' dark comedy and Godfrey Cheshire's story of plantation life.
Arts, Culture, & Entertainment
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2008
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Tainted Love
Daphne A. Brooks : Music
Just about the only thing Amy Winehouse hasn't repackaged from the black music archives is the one thing she could use: a lesson in Motown etiquette.
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Hollywood's Baby Boom
Meredith Blake : Media Analysis
As print journalism faces extinction, tabloids obsess over celebrity pregnancy and childbirth. What's wrong with this picture?
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Summer of the Superhero
Adam Howard : Film
Superhero-themed films are dominating the summer box office. Is it just about the bottom line or our national longing for genuine heroism?
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Should Will Smith Play Obama?
The Colbert Report : Television
Stephen Colbert suggests that playing McCain would be a bigger stretch for the Academy Award nominated movie star.
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Carlin Uncensored
YouTube : Video
Comedian George Carlin is dead at 71. The Nation pays tribute to "America's most consistently savage social commentator."
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This Brave Nation: Two Generations of Hope
Brave Nation : Public Figures & Intellectuals
Pete Seeger talks about music and activism with one of the country's most effective young grassroots leaders, Majora Carter.
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Radio Nation With Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Arthur C. Danto recalls Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Kim analyzes California's gay marriage ruling.
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Playing Games
Stephen Totilo : Internet & New Media
Are virtual-world video games just another plaything or a new frontier with vast potential to upend social norms?
2007
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TransAfrica's Tribute to Ruby Dee
Walter Mosley : African-Americans
"She is our elder and our sister and our daughter. We celebrate her as we celebrate the moon: our guide through the dark, dark night."
2006
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Puerto Rico, On Drugs
Ricardo Mendez Matta and Poli Marichal answer questions about their new film, Ladrones y Mentirosos (Thieves and Liars), which takes a hard look at the price Puerto Ricans are paying for the drug trade.
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The March of Progress
A comparative list of how our cultural life has changed in the progression from the modern age to the postmodern.
2005
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Fear and Laughing in Las Vegas
Lenny Bruce was a lone voice at a time when irreverent comedy could land him in jail on obscenity charges. But the spirit of Lenny Bruce hovered over the first annual Comedy Festival in Los Vegas, where the nation's top comics used laughs to bring down the establishment.
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Life Among the Neo-Pagans
Our reporter visits a "a magickal, psychedelic & multi-cultural" forest outing and asks, Are New Age, Old Religion believers an endangered species in Born Again America?
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Game Theory
What does today's culture of television and video games say about society?
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Porto Alegre Postcard
This year's World Social Forum gave culture its due--and reaped the rewards.
2004
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Red Sluts, Blue Sluts
Richard Goldstein : Feminism & Women
Desperate Housewives is liberal on the surface but conservative at the core.
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Money for Nothing
Eric Alterman : Campaign Finance
Rich liberals get nothing from the national treasury or tax code for their activism.
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Art Makes a Difference
Alisa Solomon : Presidential Election 2004
The Bush era has seen an explosion of sharply political creativity.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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