The End of Mourning: On Tony Kushner
many of us have spent the last decades living in a disappointed age, an age in which the entire notion of “revolution” became a joke...
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Politics and Economics
Dissent: Liu Xiabo's "No Enemies, No Hatred"
In the forefront of calls for democracy in China, Liu has engaged in various forms of dissent....
Rereading Catch-22
For many years, I believed that my favorite novel was Catch-22....
The Battle of the People’s Kitchen
At first I was skeptical about Occupy Riverside. But the more I heard about what was going on downtown, the more enthusiastic I became....
Legacy
Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings....
Egyptian Spring
By gathering emblematic tweets, an important slice of the Revolution is organized and clarified through well-established editorial procedures....
Keys to the City
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species....
Narcocorridos: Ed Vulliamy's "Amexica"
"Few ever stop to ask how many lives just went up a supermodel's nose." Or got smoked in a bowl. Or rolled in a joint....
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