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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From "Superman" to "I Love Lucy," we look back at the role this outdated played in television and film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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