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Cruelty on the border

John Carlos Frey
A hidden camera shows Border Patrol agents destroying water jugs left for migrants, and the abuse just gets worse

Pick of the week: A moody samurai answer to Batman

Andrew O'Hehir
Pick of the week: A lonely hero with a secret seeks brutal justice -- in 3-D! -- in "Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai"

The outrageous economics of maintaining classified information

Tom Engelhardt
And lack of transparency probably doesn't make you any safer

Illustrator fights back against Marvel Comics

Michael Dooley
Arlen Schumer wants everyone to know that Stan Lee didn't create comic superheroes alone

Batman hates the 99 Percent

David Sirota
"The Dark Knight Rises" and the new "Call of Duty" game both demonize Occupy. Has pop culture turned on populism?

America’s apocalypse obsession

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Why are we so fixated on the end of the world?

In support of Stephen King

Sarah Langan
A young horror writer defends the novelist

Dark side of a Bain success

Art Levine
A for-profit health company bought by Bain -- that Romney profits from -- has exploded in size and tales of neglect

Louis CK: I wasn’t defending Tosh

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The comic explains how his supportive tweet went rogue, and makes stranger news: He actually likes Tosh

Is vanilla sex boring?

Catherine Scott
"Vanilla" hasn't always been a put-down

Green Day: Rock’s saddest joke

Stephen Deusner
A new single finds the American idiots empty, edgeless and -- even worse -- channeling lame Bono poses

Leave Sage and Suri alone

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Our tabloid culture is already dangerously diseased -- but the celebrity obsession should stop with their kids

Mitt Romney’s self-help gurus

Alex Pareene
"7 Habits" author Stephen Covey died Monday. How he and other motivational writers helped shape Mitt Romney

“Gay panic” is not a defense

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Believe it or not, there are still places where an alleged killer can claim the victim was coming on to him

Big banks keep ripping us off

Joshua Holland
The American media are downplaying a huge banking scandal that's rocking the UK.

War is betrayal

Chris Hedges
The story of war is always a tale of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal and the poor

Commuting to Disneyland

Will Doig
As going carless turns cool, our new train stations are becoming magnificent public gathering spots

London’s Olympic legacy

Iain Sinclair
How the games are changing London

Physics and culture collide

Dennie Wendt
The Higgs boson and other moments of transcendence

It’s all the hippies’ fault

Andrew Leonard
David Brooks says the counterculture explains Wall Street greed. The man is a glutton for punishment

Male comics: Stop enabling rape culture

Molly Jane Knefel
A female stand-up says rape jokes are too pervasive -- and that it will only stop when more men speak out

1 Flesh pushes condomless sex

Amanda Marcotte
Christian group's slick marketing takes on birth control

Not the Harvey Pekar graphic novel you’d expect

Michael Dooley
The late writer's take on the Middle East

Pick of the week: “Trishna” rebukes Bollywood

Andrew O'Hehir
Pick of the week: Michael Winterbottom's brave and ruthless love story is the anti-"Slumdog Millionaire"
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