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Fourteen most extreme candidates

Evelyn Schlatter
Michele Bachmann has company. A who's who of the hard-right currently running for office

How Marvel created the modern blockbuster

Panio Gianopoulos
Bam! Pow! A new history of the iconic comics company reveals the bare-knuckled scrapping behind famed superheroes

Is Ben Affleck one of this generation’s greatest filmmakers?

Allen Barra
With "Argo," Affleck is poised to surpass the legacy of fellow actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood

Six examples of the right’s war on children’s characters

Sarah Jaffe
Big Bird has some company

“Won’t Back Down”: Why do teachers’ unions hate America?

Andrew O'Hehir
"Won't Back Down" is an offensive, lame, union-bashing drama, which somehow stars Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Teachers’ strike: Chicago’s just the beginning

Josh Eidelson
By emphasizing class size, the showdown with Rahm Emanuel has redefined the education debate

World’s best political comedians

FPIF Staff
Meet the people from all over the globe who make us laugh and challenge government Orthodoxy

War, just another reality show

Willa Paskin
On "Stars Earn Stripes," NBC's jingoistic embarrassment, Gen. Wesley Clark dreams of a platoon of boy-band castoffs

NBC’s war for fun and profit

Glenn Greenwald
A new reality show of soldiers and celebrities playing war games showcases our national religion: military worship

Ryan’s Ayn Rand obsession

Jan Frel
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Objectivist author who inspired Romney's V.P. pick

Stars earn stripes, dupe audience

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
If NBC's coverage of the Olympics is pumped with artificial drama, wait until you see its military "reality" show

Fifty shades of capitalism

Lynn Parramore
Pain and bondage in the American workplace

Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell

Sean Beaudoin
Damnation's eternal soundtrack

Capitalism’s great heist

Gerald Friedman
Elites say inequality encourages the rich to invest and the creative to invent. This works out well for 1% dogs

Enough, “Spider-Man”: No more origin stories!

Marty Beckerman
"Spider-Man" is the latest super-hero franchise to go backwards. Is there an original idea left in Hollywood?

Spider-Man and Holden Caulfield: A secret history

Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew Garfield's angsty, Salinger-inspired Peter Parker is the face of this very likable summer blockbuster

Alec Baldwin on love, marriage, “30 Rock” and Woody Allen

Andrew O'Hehir
The tabloid-friendly "30 Rock" star talks about marriage, regrets and his role in Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love"

Superman: Forged by bullies!

Larry Tye
Jerry Siegel created a superhero when he was a picked-on, fatherless child dreaming of his own Lois Lane

Leaking war

Peter Van Buren
How Obama’s targeted killings, leaks, and the everything-is-classified state have fused

Obama’s favorite Vietnam-Afghanistan parallel

David Sirota
It's a myth that Americans spit on soldiers returning from Vietnam. So why did President Obama tacitly endorse it?

Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA

Joel Whitney
Letters discovered by Salon show even deeper Cold War ties between the Paris Review and a U.S. propaganda front

Cheating runs rampant

Daniel Denvir
No Child Left Behind has unleashed a nationwide epidemic of cheating. Will education reformers wake up?

Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman

Sarah El Deeb
After Mubarak, Egyptians are looking for a leader who will be able to solve a myriad of problems

Is American decline real?

Robert J.Lieber
More and more thinkers are warning that our glory days are over, but their arguments are flawed -- and old
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