America’s split personality: Paranoid superstate and land of equality
From "The Heat" to "White House Down," from Snowden to gay rights, America plays both hero and villain
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 5:00 PM UTCEntertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
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Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
“White House Down”: Destroying America in order to save it
Channing Tatum saves Jamie Foxx's peacemaking black president from a right-wing coup in "White House Down"
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 20Entertainment Movies, Action movies
Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency
Reporter Jeremy Scahill's riveting film helps explain how the "transformational presidency" turned to nightmare
Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 130Entertainment Movies, Documentaries, Politics
Class war comes to the multiplex
From magical bank heists to anarchist attacks to Paris Hilton's Manolos, the movies go where "real" politics can't
Saturday, Jun 1, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 25Entertainment Movies, Politics, U.S. Politics
How the GOP cast Obama as Gatsby (minus the parties)
He's a flawed, handsome idealist with a puzzling life story, hounded by his enemies as a sinister outsider
Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 33Entertainment Barack Obama, Politics
Guantánamo: It’s Obama’s disgrace now
Sure, Bush created this nightmare -- but the current hunger-strike crisis stems from Obama's political cowardice
Saturday, May 4, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 97News Politics, U.S. Politics
Sarah Palin thinks she’s Margaret Thatcher
For the former Alaska governor, describing the former prime minister is like looking in a mirror
Monday, Apr 8, 2013 9:26 PM UTC 93News Sarah Palin, Margaret Thatcher
Is the two-state solution finally dead?
Obama's terrific speech can't hide the fact that no solution is in sight and a "one-state reality" is setting in
Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 145News Israel, Israel-Palestine
Are Hugo Chávez and Rand Paul anti-imperialist BFFs?
The Venezuelan socialist and the Kentucky Tea Partyer, semi-united in kooky resistance to American hegemony
Saturday, Mar 9, 2013 5:30 PM UTC 61Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
Oliver Stone: America is an “outlaw nation”
The cinematic renegade talks about Obama, FDR, his new Showtime series and the myth of American exceptionalism
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Game over, conservative friend
For months, our political arguments made a mess of Facebook. It's finally time to admit we just can't play nice
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 12:30 AM UTC 43Life Presidential Election 2012
Young Democrats in love
Zach and I met working on political campaigns, but as my youthful idealism fell apart, so did our relationship
Friday, Nov 2, 2012 11:30 PM UTCLife Love and Sex, 2008 Elections
From binders to Benghazi, memes are killing politics
Irrelevant details dominate the way we talk about the campaign. This might not be new, but it is getting worse
Saturday, Oct 20, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 23Entertainment Abraham Lincoln, 2012 Elections
Lies, gaffes, taxes: Mitt can never take responsibility
The GOP candidate can never admit he's wrong. What does that say about his character?
Monday, Sep 24, 2012 9:13 PM UTC 38Politics Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
Poll: Americans really don’t trust the media
New numbers show the breach has reached record levels
Monday, Sep 24, 2012 3:25 PM UTCNews Polling, Media, U.S. Politics
Shirley Chisholm, the Democrats’ forgotten hero
Shirley Chisholm's historic campaign, and her visit to George Wallace, suggest a Democratic Party that never was
Sunday, Sep 9, 2012 7:00 PM UTC 14Life Politics, U.S. Politics
“2016″: Dinesh D’Souza’s demented anti-Obama crusade
In the surprise documentary hit, he spins a suspiciously personal conspiracy theory. So let's put him on the couch
Thursday, Aug 30, 2012 8:55 PM UTC 87Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
American politics: Too crazy for the movies
"The Campaign" presents American politics as an empty, vulgar, corrupt farce. If only it were that simple
Sunday, Aug 12, 2012 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
“Total Recall” and America’s false-memory syndrome
Do we know who we really are? The 2012 election is a Philip K. Dick showdown between dueling American fantasies
Saturday, Aug 4, 2012 7:30 PM UTC 52Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics
Birther fears Obama re-election
‘We will be hunted down like dogs' if Obama is re-elected, says birther Joseph Farah
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2012 2:38 PM UTC 34Politics Southern Poverty Law Center
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