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How Star Wars Unmasks Baby Boomers As America's Sith Lords
George Lucas' greatest triumph is charting a generation's passage from antiwar activism to running Abu Ghraib and secret kill lists.
Will Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trigger Fans? At Least One.
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: "…I spent the whole day talking about the Darth Vader situation."
Looking For Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toys? Duh, You're a Crazy Fan Now.
Merchandise will make $3 billion in 2015 alone.
The Incoherent Politics of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The movie is fun, but its post-Galactic Empire political structure doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Watch These Videos While in Line for Star Wars (No Spoilers, We Swear).
Going to see The Force Awakens? Watch Reason TV's take on the cultural phenomena first.
The CIA Meets with Michael Bay
It claims it wanted to make sure his upcoming Benghazi movie won't reveal any classified information.
School Officials Make Boy Scout Cover Up His Star Wars T-Shirt
A fictional weapon wielded by an imaginary soldier runs afoul of a ban on "symbols oriented toward violence."
The Man Behind The Martian
Bestselling author Andy Weir on politics, commercial space, and the future of publishing
Star Wars as the Story of Luke Skywalker's Terrorist Radicalization
Arguing about politics is part of what makes Star Wars fandom so much fun.
Friday A/V Club: An Early George Lucas Film About a Man Escaping East Germany
The 1966 short Freiheit
What Does Star Wars Mean?: A Reason Argument Hotter Than the Twin Suns of Tatooine
The Washington Post's Alyssa Rosenberg, Free Beacon's Sonny Bunch, and Reason's Peter Suderman fight over why we care.
How Much Are 1970s Star Wars Toys Worth? A Lot.
Sotheby's auctions massive Star Wars toy collection.
The Star Wars Economy is Bigger Than You Think
How the franchise changed the way movies make money.
The Star Wars Economy is Bigger Than You Think
How the franchise changed the way movies make money
Friday A/V Club: The Story of Hitler's England
Something to watch with The Man in the High Castle
Legion of Armed, Upset Citizens Has a 'Surprise' Planned for Quentin Tarantino
Response to criticism of police misconduct is to give more reasons to be afraid.
Police Unions Freak Out Over Quentin Tarantino's Mild Anti-Police Killings Statement
Questioning everything leads to war on cops and more tired old myths.
Friday A/V Club: The Totalitarian Hand
An aging Eastern European animator's protest against Stalinism
You Say You Want a Ukrainian Revolution?
The director of 'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' talks with Reason TV.
'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' Comes to Netflix
Q&A with documentary director Evgeny Afineevsky
Bugs Bunny vs. Donald Trump on Eminent Domain
Cartoon rabbit, unlike New York developer, understands the 'the sanctity of the American home'
Bernie Sanders Responds to Oregon Shooting: More Gun Control, More Mental Health, Less Violence in Media
Wants less shouting, more good policy.
The Martian author Andy Weir on Mars Colonization, Commercial Space Travel, and Going From Programmer to Best-Selling Author
Q&A with the man who wrote the book behind the upcoming Hollywood film starring Matt Damon.
Are Violent Video Games Digital Poison?
The American Psychological Association thinks so.
R.I.P. Hollywood Horror Master Wes Craven
Director of teen-horror classics "Scream" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" dies at 76.
Friday A/V Club: What Political Advertising Looked Like 75 Years Ago
Look out, world! Here comes Willkie!
Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The Look of Silence' Confronts the Perpetrators of Genocide
An unforgettable documentary looks at the lasting scars of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965.
Friday A/V Club: Anarchists Take Over Film Industry, Make a Revolutionary Children's Musical
One of the odder artifacts of the Spanish Civil War
New Harper Lee Book Has Parents Reconsidering the Wisdom of Naming a Kid 'Atticus'
The Times has scooped The Onion.
