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A Maori action movie? Hell yes: It’s the crazy, gory, gleeful martial-arts movie you didn’t know you needed
Andrew O'Hehir
Full of strutting, buffed-up warriors and showboat action scenes, "The Dead Lands" is half trash, half anthropology
Ben & Jerry’s is making a dessert beer, God help us all
Joanna Rothkopf
As if there weren't enough ways to shorten your own life
“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?”
Colin Gorenstein
A "Hunger Games" star has the perfect response to cultural appropriation
Right-wing freak-out over teacher’s “pretend you are Muslim” assignment: “What does this have to do in the role of a history class?”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A high school assignment in empathy backfires with a conservative backlash
America’s over-criminalization epidemic: How the prosecution of Atlanta teachers exposes a broken system
Elias Isquith
The threat of over-criminalization is a nationwide problem with no easy fix, law professor Angela Davis tells Salon
Fear of a female president: How Hillary’s ambitions — and defeats — have shaped TV’s political women
Sonia Saraiya
The shadow of HRC looms large over TV -- it almost feels like she's been president for years
Nazi-hunting in South America: Germany’s official agency has a new mission
Simeon Tegel
Investigators have been dispatched to Ecuador to track down 10 infamous war criminals & hundreds more of lower rank
The Boston Marathon and Reddit: When the Internet’s deluded amateur-hour detectives ran amok
Laura Miller
A new film "The Thread" explores Reddit's bungling "investigation" during the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers
“‘SNL’ is a wonderful experience, but it also tests the limits of human emotions”: Gary Kroeger looks back on his three seasons
Kera Bolonik
Exclusive: "How do you come up with catchphrases?" Gary Kroeger shares backstage stories of "SNL" in the mid-'80s
Record Store Day needs to die: The cynical, bloated event is ruining the fun of collecting music
Keith Creighton
The indie music shop celebration has been hijacked by eBay profiteers and crass PR cash-ins -- let 2015 be the last
In unprecedented move, Russia moves to ban Tom Hardy film “Child 44” for distorting history
Anna Silman
Russia has been increasingly censorious of films that are seen to depict the country in a negative light
Leave Madonna’s age out of it: Nobody gets a free pass to grope at will
Arthur Chu
A kiss from a 56-year-old woman isn't "gross" -- but how we talk about violating consent is
Noam Chomsky: We’re facing a new Cold War
Noam Chomsky
The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes
Steve Albini rips “foodie” culture: “Rich people eat better than poor people”
Joanna Rothkopf
He also hates smoothies
Blood money, killer cops: How privatization is funding the racist logic of America’s police
Brittney Cooper
What do police violence in Oklahoma and NYC have in common? An infusion of private cash and a culture of death
File under ‘inevitable’: “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” author Jon Ronson slammed by Twitter-shamers
Laura Miller
Indignant critics blasted the author for a passage about rape that was cut before his book was even published
America’s criminal justice disgrace: How Apple’s ban of former felons reveals the long road to real reform
Elias Isquith
Barring ex-felons from employment affronts their civil rights, the Sentencing Project's Nicole Porter tells Salon
Marco Rubio’s cynical Tupac fandom: Why “I don’t listen to music for the politics” is a hip-hop cop-out
Matthew Pulver
The presidential hopeful is the latest Republican to burnish his pop culture bona fides to appeal to younger voters
LeBron James, underdog: How an NBA legend became a humble, hungry hero of the downtrodden Rust Belt
Will Di Novi
We admire Goliath, but we worship David -- and nobody works that contradiction like LeBron James
The Walter Scott outrage nobody is talking about
Heather Digby Parton
The killing of an unarmed man has rightly captured our attention. But another aspect of the story remains unnoticed
Cultural tipping point alert: You can all stop making fun of Kristen Stewart now
Anna Silman
Much like Hathahate, bashing Kristen Stewart is officially out of vogue
Marvel’s gritty “Daredevil”: Fighting corruption in an urban war zone with an unlikely power — hope
Scott Eric Kaufman
The first of 4 Marvel shows coming to Netflix tries to rebuild what "The Avengers" alien battle destroyed
Every snide joke you’ve told about Ringo is wrong: The least-celebrated Beatle is finally getting the respect he deserves
Patrick Berkery
Not even the best drummer in the Beatles? False! His Hall of Fame induction is long overdue
I hate the Common Core’s high-stakes standardized tests — but I made my kid take them anyway
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Opting out of the stressful, high-stakes test isn't so easy for many families
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