The campaign to end assault against women must also include men.
Television
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More Downton Abbey, Less Grand Theft Auto? Not Gonna Happen.
Last week, my sort-of opposite number at ThinkProgress.org-culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, who also writes for The Atlantic and Slate-posted the kind of prescriptive think piece about Our Violent Culture that makes old geezers like me heave a hefty sigh as we finger our own dog-eared membership cards in the vast left-wing conspiracy. Just for the […]
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Zero Dark Thirty: Homeland’s Prequel?
In both cultural depictions, September 11 is a wound that never heals.
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The Situation Goes West
No matter where you live, there’s probably a reality show that makes the people near you look like a bunch of self-absorbed half-wits.
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Hell No, Elmo!
Are intergenerational relationships inherently problematic?
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My Kingdom for a Fox!
Shakespearean tragedy unfolded in the conservative media nerve center as Obama’s victory was announced, while a wealth of exhausted pundits dominated the rest of cable news.
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It’s Just Unbelievable to Be Freed
Why some of us may never get over how far lesbians and gay man have come from the old homo version of Jim Crow.
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And Best Supporting Zinger Goes To…
There’s post-presidential debate strife in Wonkland, but all that counts to the undecided voters that remain is whether the two candidates put on a good show.
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NOLA Contendere
Treme’s viewers may be dwindling in its third season, but this New Orleans resident still finds more than enough to like in a show that keeps finding new ways to love its milieu.
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Redneckognize
The lives of TLC’s newest reality stars are more complicated than you want them to be.
