TAP talks to James Scurlock, director of the acclaimed documentary about the credit industry, Maxed Out, out this week on DVD.
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Locked Out
The United States incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. The impact of the U.S. penal system, not only on the lives of prisoners but also on the nation’s civic and economic health, is far-reaching. In Punishment and Inequality in America, Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at […]
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Anatomy of a Murder
From 1996 to 2000, 800 electric cars were leased by General Motors in California. By the end of 2005, almost all of these cars had been hauled to the crusher, against the ardent protestations of electric car owners throughout the state. In his directorial debut, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Chris Paine investigates the creation […]