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A fond farewell to the hard-wired phone
J.J. Sedelmaier
From "Superman" to "I Love Lucy," we look back at the role this outdated played in television and film
The We-Are-At-War! mentality
Glenn Greenwald
The Bush/Cheney War on Terror was justified with four radical premises; do Obama supporters reject any of them?
What would Superman wear
Matt Singer
At a charity benefit, fashion designers dress and create their own superheroes
Anita Perry, closet liberal?
Nina Burleigh
Not quite. The spouse of the stumbling front-runner embodies the decent conservatism he has left behind
How to make history, Jane Eyre and superheroes funny
Laura Miller
Kate Beaton, creator of the comic "Hark! A Vagrant," on the art of telling jokes about things people take seriously
Pow! Boom! Why DC relaunched iconic comic books
Heidi MacDonald
Even Superman can't escape tough times. Publisher Jim Lee explains why DC relaunched all 52 comic books this week
Why we should give remakes a chance
Matt Zoller Seitz
Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese are re-doing films widely considered to be classics. You got a problem with that?
“Misfits:” British superheroes just want to be teens
Drew Grant
An interview with "Misfits" creator Howard Overman on having superpowers without being at all heroic
Five pop culture items we missed
Drew Grant
Today's catch: "Mad Men" meets cult comedy, Terry Richardson
meets Liza, and marathons meet zombies
Five pop culture items we missed
Drew Grant
Today's catch: SpongeBob makes an enemy of Fox News, Spielberg's movie list in doubt, and a post-Baldwin "30 Rock"
Heinlein and Asimov’s WWII adventures
Paul Di Filippo
A new novel reimagines the lives of several famous authors in wartime Philadelphia
Kim Kardashian’s psoriasis is a cultural crisis
Drew Grant
What happens when our personification of skin-deep beauty develops a skin disease?
The five douchiest fictional colleges in America
Drew Grant
You think Cornell grads suck? They've got nothing on the students
of Bennington, Adams or Faber
“Captain America”: A patriotic surprise from the comic-book past
Andrew O'Hehir
Alive with WWII period details and Hugo Weaving's villainy, "Captain America" is a delicious adventure yarn
My guilty obsession with swastikas
Steven Heller
I'm ashamed of my interest in the symbol, but as a designer I'm fascinated by the Nazi icon's enduring power
DC starts from scratch with Superman
Drew Grant
A reinvented Superman loses Lois Lane, but might rediscover the American way
How my parents invented hipster kids’ clothing
Jessica Firger
My folks turned ironic children's shirts into big business. Their impact lasted -- even if the marriage didn't
Our new language of perpetual war
Tom Engelhardt
From "victory" to "withdrawal," we look at nine words that have been redefined to justify our military actions
How I fell for the dark side of Marvel Comics
Steve Wing
I was a bullied kid long before the explosion of geek culture. You have no idea what discovering Spider-Man meant
10 year time capsule: “Spider-Man” and the erasing of the World Trade Centers
Drew Grant
Four months after it was released, the hotly anticipated trailer took on a very different meaning
Superman no longer identifies as American
Drew Grant
When the man of steel renounces his U.S. citizenship, what does that say about our country?
Time puts Michelle Rhee on a list, ignores her critics and scandals
Alex Pareene
The former D.C. schools head and current adviser to GOP governors is guilty only of loving the children too much
Dictator chic
David Sirota
When it comes to figuring out which strongmen the U.S. supports, is clothing the best predictor of all?
Dilbert creator’s ever-worsening P.R. crisis
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Scott Adams defends his self-congratulatory commenting and weighs in on the Obama chimp controversy. Make it stop
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