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My Imaginary Coney Island

Josh Alan FriedmanApril 19, 2018

I have a recurring dream, which I will embellish only a little: It is of an old, but not entirely abandoned, amusement park that once rivaled Coney Island—...

New Perspectives

Laura HeffingtonMarch 29, 2018

“This is it,” I said in the direction of the back seat. “Dada's house?” Atticus said. I didn't answer. This one was called New Perspectives. It looked ju...

Filmmaker Errol Morris Talks Fog of War, Torture and Human Progress

Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018

Errol Morris makes must-see documentaries, among them The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War and Standard Operating Procedure. Morris's films patiently, evenhan...

Dorli Rainey: Elder With a Cause

Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018

Seattle’s poster child for pepper-spray abuse shares her 2012 to-do list. Dorli Rainey wasn’t expecting to become famous. On Tuesday, November 15, she joined...

You May Already Be an FBI Terror Suspect: 85 Things Not to Do

Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018

Communities Against Terrorism enlists everyday busybodies to spy on the rest of us. Keeping America safe from totalitarian ideologues is a big, big job, too ...

‘A Fuck-You World’: Levi’s, Bukowski and England’s Looters on the Run

Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018

The counterculture will be co-opted, but not always without peril to the marketing department. It’s a fuck-you world,” said American writer Charles Bukowski....

The Sour Side of Bristol Palin’s Sweet Candies Deal

Allan MacDonellFebruary 1, 2018

It’s unsportsmanlike to pick on Bristol Palin, daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. No child asks to be born into a contentious and v...

‘Witnesses to Hunger’ Shows You Where Food Is a Luxury—in the USA

Allan MacDonellJanuary 31, 2018

Low-income mothers are focusing cameras on their children to bring America’s hunger crisis home to the well-fed masses. ‘Every day all your money is goin...

1,452% Pay Raise: Why Congressmen Become Lobbyists

Allan MacDonellJanuary 31, 2018

When a politician loses reelection, the real dirty work begins. A March 19 report from Republic Report, specialists in “investigating how money corrupts...

Director Ava DuVernay: ‘If I Could, I Would Abolish Prisons.’

Allan MacDonellJanuary 31, 2018

Ava DuVernay admits she is radical; that’s what it means to be a woman filmmaker. Middle of Nowhere is a movie that starts with the premise of an African Ame...

5 Scenes From America’s Class War

Allan MacDonellJanuary 30, 2018

[Today's concerted government and corporate campaign of imposed poverty waged against America's underclasses? Oh, look! It was in full force when this post...

New York Times’ David Carr: ‘If I Don’t Type This, Then I Don’t Really Exist’

Allan MacDonellJanuary 30, 2018

[Editor Note: New York Times columnist David Carr died at work on February 12, 2015, at age 58. This interview, originally published in May 2011, was conducted ...

Filmmaker Errol Morris Talks Fog of War, Torture and Human Progress

Dorli Rainey: Elder With a Cause

You May Already Be an FBI Terror Suspect: 85 Things Not to Do

‘A Fuck-You World’: Levi’s, Bukowski and England’s Looters on the Run

The Sour Side of Bristol Palin’s Sweet Candies Deal

‘Witnesses to Hunger’ Shows You Where Food Is a Luxury—in the USA

1,452% Pay Raise: Why Congressmen Become Lobbyists

Director Ava DuVernay: ‘If I Could, I Would Abolish Prisons.’

5 Scenes From America’s Class War

New York Times’ David Carr: ‘If I Don’t Type This, Then I Don’t Really Exist’

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