In the 1980s, fighting inequality appeared to be a top priority for the government of Poland, as it had been since the country embraced communism – though not necessarily willingly – after…
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Over the past few weeks, much of the public’s attention has been diverted to a bizarre series of events in Kentucky. There, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this year effectively legalizing…
As anyone who watched any kind of news outlet last week already knows, the big story was Seymour Hersh’s article alleging that the Obama administration’s story of the killing of Osama Bin…
Last week, the mainstream media was thrown a fresh chunk of talking points as Obama participated in a panel discussion at Georgetown University. The topic? Poverty. And, that being the topic, it…
Last Friday was the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, an event which, if you’re a Turkish government official, you’re much more likely to refer to with some nauseating euphemism like “the 1915…
Washington D.C. is, as the old saying goes, “like Hollywood for ugly people.” Lawmakers, policy wonks, and (lest we forget) lobbyists didn’t work their way inside the beltway just to sit around…
So, the results are in for the recent elections in Nigeria (I’m sure everyone was paying close attention), and the big winner is Muhammadu Buhari. Last week, Buhari, who has already served…
Though I don’t consider myself a huge TV critic, I’ve been following the Daily Show’s efforts to crown Jon Stewart’s successor relatively closely. This is important, people. As goes the Daily Show, so…
Bill O’Reilly is a guy who likes to make the claim that the mainstream media, which is to say, all media that isn’t either his own Fox News or the far right…
In 1998, the still relatively young cable network Comedy Central wanted to show its viewers that it wasn’t afraid to dip its toes into the troubled waters of politics. Two years earlier,…
So, the Oscars happened. The biggest buzz generated by the show seems to have less to do with the actual movies and more to do with griping about Neil Patrick Harris’s performance…
Politics in Latin America is always a messy affair. And in the latest scandal to rock the region, the mess in question was a pool of blood left by Alberto Nisman, an…
By now, you’ve probably heard all the details of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. But just in case you haven’t, I’ll fill you in. On Wednesday, two masked gunmen broke into…
[Warning: this essay ended up being really long. What can I say? These are deep-seated issues, and much as I wish I could address them adequately with a few GIFs and a…
By now the news of the 600 page report on CIA torture commissioned by the Senate has been extensively covered by the media. Our wise pundits have fully chewed it up, digested it,…
If you’ve already seen Interstellar, don’t tell me how it ends. I’ve been trying to avoid as many spoilers about it as I can, and once I do see it, to post…
Within four hours of the polls closing in Kentucky, this year’s midterm elections already had their viral image [not pictured due to copyright, please follow the link]: Alison Lundergan Grimes at the podium in…
It’s a scene that’s just as famous among film scholars as it is among news junkies: Charles Foster Kane, owner of an influential news conglomerate in the early 20th century, is settling…
If I had been watching live, I probably would have guessed that the Bill Maher/Sam Harris/Ben Affleck video (with a mediocre cameo by ex RNC chair and full time goofball Michael Steele)…
Last week, Brazil held its first round of presidential elections, and one of sitting president Dilma Rousseff’s main challengers came with a very unusual background for a politician: she spent most of…
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