Friday A/V Club: When Satire, Slapstick, and Surrealism Collide
The long-suppressed Soviet satire My Grandmother, plus a tribute to Bob Hoskins.
Communism
The Communist Party's Role in the Rise of Joseph McCarthy
No, not some crazy Manchurian Candidate scenario
Four Great Myths of the McCarthy Era
Sixty years after the Army-McCarthy hearings, we should reexamine some of our accumulated lore about the period.
Friday A/V Club: Footage from the Communist Mirror-Universe
A weird pop relic from the end of the Soviet era
Kim Jong Il Unmasked: Michael Malice's Unauthorized Autobiography of North Korea's Supreme Leader
An event at NYC's Museum of Sex
The Left Still Harbors a Soft Spot For Communism
For all the brutal revelations, the romanticized view of communism as a failed but noble venture has yet to get a stake through the heart.
The Third Lesson of Nelson Mandela
With great foreign intervention comes flawed moral reasoning.
The Civil Rights Movement's Unsung Hero
For Bayard Rustin, human rights activism was never about solidarity with his own group but about freedom, justice and dignity for all
Czech Parliament Votes to Dissolve
New elections could give country's Communist Party some power
My Week in North Korea
A Soviet-born American tours the Hermit Kingdom and finds humanity in a most inhumane place.
NSA's Surveillance Operations the Envy of Former Stasi Commander
Approaching Godwin's law territory
Advertising + Communism = Strange Things On the Internet
Making commercials in the Soviet Union.
Chinese Military at Heart of Asia Pivot Policy "rotten to the core"?
Xi Jinping needs the People's Liberation Army as a domestic political tool
It's Time to End the U.S. Embargo of Cuba
The U.S. government has been tireless in pursuing a policy that does not look better with time
Remy: Jay-Z's Cuba State of Mind
White House clearance or no, Havana's a weird place to vacation.
How Thatcher Liberated Western Europe
Even while saying "No. No. No," the famous Euro-skeptic helped the continent say yes to much-needed reforms.
Confronting Stalin's Legacy, 60 Years After His Death
Memory of dictator still positive in Russia and the west
Judge Alex Kozinski: From Communist Romania to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
One of our most controversial jurists talks about free speech, cell phones, and how bubble gum made him a capitalist.
