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Forgotten Casualties of the Recession By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO "Consistently ignored in reporting on the economic crisis is the dramatic tol...

Dean Baker over at CommonDreams makes a solid point when he says Republicans can wait out the gloomy economic realities of the present and...

The Critics' Picks in the New York Times today is Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, a film I have not seen but would very much like to. Mayb...

It can be ascertained that Safeway's facile, overly friendly customer service campaign is bogus. Not that we didn't know from the ge...

A Republican with enough balls and rare good sense to see the truth speaks his mind, and is of course is pilloried. Can the Afghanistan War...

The following happens to be the most subversive short essay of the 21st century, and by a miraculous coincidence is included in my collecti...

There are millions of soccer--all right, futbol--fans around the world, but I'm not one of them. As the World Cup winds down in South ...

Another film from my Top 25 is Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien , the story of a boy's entanglement with Nazis in 1944 occupied France....

"It is sad to see that the U.S. Congress is having trouble even passing just $24 billion for unemployment insurance at a time when the...

I discovered my new theory quite by accident on the sidewalk written in chalk in an unsteady hand that might have been mine the chalk writin...

Robbe-Grillet's first novel, The Erasers, sits on my bed next to my pillow. Because I claim it is there and see it, I am convinced it i...

Patrick Cockburn reminds readers that Sunnis flipped for pragmatic reasons unassociated with the the much-lauded"surge" in Iraq,...

Try this at home. Put one of your favorite movies on and find one of its best scenes, press pause, and look hard at the picture. What do yo...

Universally recognized as one of the greatest theatre artist to ever live, Antonin Artaud is today a neglected man, particularly in America....

America is drunk. America is staggering down the street like a man on a thirty-year bender. It is dirty and debased, jobless, ready to mak...