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Make wanderlust, not war
Jeff Greenwald
Americans should stop listening to the fear-mongers and travel overseas. It's the best way to start bringing the U.S. back into the world community.
Out of the past
Charles Taylor
It's easy to laugh at classic Hollywood movies. It's harder to grasp that they're America's truest and most necessary cultural heritage -- and wicked, brazen, unsentimental fun besides.
“Terror and Liberalism” by Paul Berman
Ellen Willis
An important liberal thinker argues that Islamic fundamentalism is the new face of fascism. But his faith in the Bush administration as a force for freedom is naive.
The Arab street explodes
Michelle Goldberg
The U.S. war with Iraq is interpreted as an attack on Islam and Arabs, as violent protests erupt around the world.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The airport city of Miami International -- a metropolis for airline geeks to savor.
Should celebrity activists shut up for now?
Kerry Lauerman
Janeane Garofalo and Bill Maher have both opposed the war with Iraq. But now that the fighting has started, they offer contrasting prescriptions for protest.
The world on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
How the international press views the attack on Iraq.
War of words
Compiled by Laura McClure
What the international press and other voices are saying about the attack against Iraq.
Casualties of war
Michelle Goldberg
If the U.S. kills 10,000 Iraqi civilians, will this be a just war? 1,000? 100,000? On the eve of destruction, a deadly moral calculus awaits.
Take this war and love it
Adil Awadh, Sayyid Ali Al-Ridha
Iraqi exiles see a U.S. invasion as something to celebrate, not protest.
“The Only Girl in the Car” by Kathy Dobie
Laura Miller
In this remarkable memoir, a former '70s teen "slut" looks back on the mysteries of adolescent sex and the female quest for freedom.
See no evil
Edward W. Lempinen
Progressives have lots of arguments against the war on Iraq -- some of them compelling. But why aren't they burning to free Saddam's oppressed masses?
Get behind the M.U.L.E.
John Gorenfeld
Dani Bunten's pioneering computer game inspired some of the greatest designers in the business. But her life story is a testament to how the industry lost its way.
Not your mother’s comic book
Whitney Joiner
In her brilliant new novel "Diary of a Teenage Girl," Phoebe Gloeckner's heroine (and alter ego) falls in love with a lesbian junkie, shoots speed and has an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Why blockbuster flicks suck
Heather Havrilesky
A new documentary on the Trio cable network sums up 30 years of big budgets, blitzkrieg marketing, bad scripts and Kevin Costner.
“Nowhere in Africa”
Stephanie Zacharek
The Oscar-nominated story of German Jews in Kenya delivers just what the Academy expects from foreign films: Refined boredom.
Going downhill fast
Tina Brown
Gathering at the elite Deer Valley ski retreat, the newly humbled masters of the universe bemoan the Bush economy but express high hopes for his war.
Can “Farscape” fans reinvent TV?
Adrienne Crew
When the Sci Fi Channel canceled "Farscape," angry fans launched the usual protest movement. Now they're dreaming of a rebellion that could overthrow TV empires.
The dictator who snagged me
John Gorenfeld
When North Korea's film-loving despot Kim Jong Il kidnapped South Korea's leading director and his movie-star wife, the screen couple was plunged into a saga even stranger and more dreadful than the "Godzilla" knockoff they were forced to make.
As human as you and I
Ann Marlowe
A proposed ban on reproductive cloning demonstrates our irrational fear of the unknown, not the vagaries of science.
“Bend It Like Beckham”
Stephanie Zacharek
A smash hit from England jokes about love, soccer, ethnic food and immigrant assimilation. Wait, haven't we seen this movie before?
No. 1 with a bullet
Eric Boehlert
Darryl Worley's hot new country single "Have You Forgotten?" plumbs a new low in post-9/11 pop, arguing that to avenge terror we must attack Iraq.
Sleepwalking toward Baghdad
Gary Kamiya
As the sand runs out on peace, America drifts alone toward a strange and unjustified war.
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