Books and Entertainment : Mike Marqusee "The Scream," one of the world's best-known and widely reproduced painted images--is back on display at a museum in Norway.
July 3, 2008 The Incredible Hulk captures the amoral and villainous nature of the military's hierarchal food chain, while providing plenty of thrills.
July 3, 2008 Don Imus has made another obnoxious bigoted comment, but he's trying to hang onto his job by claiming he's a misunderstood anti-racist.
July 1, 2008 : Randy Childs With his death, comedian George Carlin left behind a wealth of hilarious observations on human behavior--and razor-sharp barbs aimed at the U.S. government.
June 27, 2008 With the release of his third album, hip-hop artist Immortal Technique continues his scathing indictment of U.S. society, from gentrification to the music industry.
June 26, 2008 A new exhibit of photos of the civil rights movement on display at Atlanta's High Museum of Art vividly brings to life the fight for freedom in the South.
June 26, 2008 : Alexander Billet The music of Bo Diddley, who died this month, opened up our ideas about music, race and culture, and the echo of it can be heard every time you turn on the radio.
June 12, 2008 The celebrated socialist science fiction writer China Miéville has written his first book for younger readers, Un Lun Dun.
June 12, 2008 There is an important and overlooked tide of condemnation of the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa coming from that most global of sports, soccer.
June 11, 2008 The mother of football player and casualty of war Pat Tillman talks about her family’s long road to learn the grim truth about Pat’s death in Afghanistan.
June 6, 2008 : Jen Roesch You might think the fact that a female-driven movie, Sex and the City, topped the box office charts would be cause for celebration. Until you see the movie.
June 5, 2008 If Tiger Woods is, as his defenders claim, an "agent for change," why is his foundation in a partnership with oil giant Chevron?
June 4, 2008 The HBO movie Recount makes it seem as if the Bush team simply outmaneuvered Gore, rather than stole the 2000 election outright through racism and fraud.
June 3, 2008 : Joe Allen A new book by a SocialistWorker.org columnist examines the lessons of the Vietnam War, with an eye to their importance 40 years ago--and today.
May 30, 2008 George Lucas' Indiana Jones series aimed to pay homage to the serials of the 1930s and '40s--many of which were filled with offensive stereotypes.
May 29, 2008 : Jeffrey St. Clair A new book documenting the war on the environment pulls no punches in its critiques of corporations and "institutionalized environmentalist" groups alike.
May 29, 2008 A People's History of American Empire is the first attempt to recreate Howard Zinn's history in a new form--the graphic novel.
May 29, 2008 When NFL player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan, U.S. officials lied about how he died. When will his mother get the whole truth?
May 22, 2008 The documentary Body of War shows the transformation of one veteran from gung-ho warrior to antiwar activist.
May 16, 2008 A new book has collected writings from throughout Noam Chomsky's life as one of the world's most respected and influential thinkers.
May 15, 2008 Barry Bonds broke the most hallowed record in sports, surpassing Henry Aaron's home run record, yet he's being erased from baseball history.
May 15, 2008 On their new album, Rising Down, the Roots give an unflinching view of the world we live in.
May 15, 2008 What does a popular television quiz show have to say about what's wrong with America's schools?
May 15, 2008 With few exceptions, white working-class people are presented on TV via the same stereotypes that pervade American culture.
May 14, 2008 A movie based on a right-wing Marvel Comic book series makes a bitter critique of the war profiteers.
May 9, 2008 The Freedom Archives has released a CD of singer, actor and communist Paul Robeson's speeches and interviews.
May 8, 2008 The poet, playwright and revolutionary Aimé Césaire died after a life spent participating in some of the 20th century's most important moments.
May 6, 2008 A new book recalls the 1997 Teamsters strike against UPS--and how it was covered in the corporate media.
May 2, 2008 Olympic officials are trying to make sure that athletes are seen, but not heard, in Beijing.
May 1, 2008 The journey of the Olympic torch has been a public relations apocalypse--with protesters holding up a light to the hypocrisy of the Games.
April 25, 2008 Without a critique of the war, the film Stop-Loss concludes with a supportive tone in the guise of duty to one's brothers in arms.
April 25, 2008 : Steve Earle One of the most explicitly political musicians around talks about his views on music, politics and the struggle for justice.
April 11, 2008 In the film Under the Same Moon, director Patricia Riggen gives a human face to the immigration issue.
April 11, 2008 White Light Black Rain reveals a far darker portrait of the August 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki than the conventional one.
April 11, 2008 Zaragosa Vargas' book Labor Rights Are Civil Rights tells the hidden history of Mexican-American workers.
April 4, 2008 It's an election year, and that means we're being treated to the lame misappropriation of popular music as campaign "theme songs."
March 28, 2008 Black August, a film about prison activist George Jackson released on DVD, presents a prodigious indictment of the U.S. judicial system.
March 28, 2008 Persepolis is a welcome break from the steady diet of alienated, computer-generated special effects films served up by Hollywood.
March 21, 2008 Unnatural Causes is a provocative and eye-opening documentary that provides irrefutable evidence that race and class impact health.
March 21, 2008 David Cay Johnston crunches the numbers and names the names--and what he exposes in his new book is enough to make anyone's blood boil.
March 14, 2008 With New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), the Dallas-born soul singer Erykah Badu seems to be making up for lost time.
March 14, 2008 For those of us who watch the Oscars for the moment when a winner tells the truth about the real world, the recent ceremonies were a big disappointment.
March 7, 2008 The Albany Park Theater Project's revival of the award-winning Aquí Estoy (which means "I am here" in Spanish) is quite timely.
March 7, 2008 The overall effect of No Country for Old Men is to prop up some of the more problematic formulations hawked on conservative AM radio.
February 22, 2008 A new book provides readers with a basic political framework to dispel common myths about immigration put forward by the media.
February 22, 2008 The film There Will Be Blood and the book it's based on, Upton Sinclair's Oil! share a revulsion at how capitalism crushes what's most human out of people.
February 15, 2008 In a new book of essays, Noam Chomsky explains what the Bush administration viewed as "opportunities" after September 11.
February 15, 2008 After scoring in his team's victory against Sudan, Mohamed Aboutreika lifted his jersey to reveal a T-shirt that read "Sympathize with Gaza."
February 8, 2008 Director John Sayles sets the birth of rock and its intersection with the blues at the heart of his new film, Honeydripper.
February 8, 2008 Real women have abortions--but not in the movies, to judge from several popular and critically acclaimed recent films.
February 1, 2008 Brian De Palma thinks the savagery of the war in Iraq has been redacted by the media, and his attempt to correct led to a hornets' nest of controversy.
February 1, 2008 Charlie Wilson's War is well made--which is why it's important to say that this is a thoroughly reactionary film from beginning to end.
January 25, 2008 The Nanny Diaries is filled with many pleasant surprises, the most important being that it's a Hollywood comedy that's actually funny.
January 25, 2008 This Common Secret tells in a straightforward way why abortion should be viewed as a fundamental right for all women.
January 18, 2008 The Wire began airing its fifth and final season on HBO this January. You should be watching.
January 18, 2008 I have yet to meet anyone who has read Philip Pullman's trilogy of "children's books" that includes The Magic Compass, and doesn't love them.
January 11, 2008 One could be forgiven for assuming The Great Debaters is simply a formulaic, feel-good movie. But the movie is much more powerful.
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