Atlas Shrugged Part II: Election Edition
Ayn Rand's timeless classic is filmed as a Tea Party fable.
Ayn Rand's timeless classic is filmed as a Tea Party fable.
How the fight for gay marriage transformed the gay rights movement.
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
The founder of Salon takes a fascinating tour of the Golden Gate City, 1967-82.
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis team up in Hollywood's latest implausible school reform flick
New series explores our current cultural dichotomy of defiance and authoritarianism.
A movie that makes teenage isolation and high-school torment seem like fresh subjects again
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are great in a movie that's not about Scientology.
Why does a TV show about gay parenting feel so dated?
Kirsten Dunst out of her element, Bradley Cooper lost in a bad book.
A 500 page defense of the stimulus fails to make the case that Obama is just misunderstood.
David Wessel's Red Ink is a handy but revealing guide to the federal budget.
Does the rise of digital movies mean the death of film? Keanu Reeves investigates.
Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, the reconstruction effort doesn't fit a simple liberal or conservative narrative.
AP treats opinions as facts, then says the opinions are wrong.
If consumers are annoyed with a merchant's monitoring, they can buy elsewhere. With the intrusive state, there is nowhere to go.
Neal Stephenson's new book explores science fiction, underseas cables, Hong Kong, and the art of storytelling.
David Cronenberg's delightfully strange riff on sex, technology, capitalism, and the quest for a good haircut.
How powerful interests seize land from peasants, pastoralists, and others around the globe
An MSNBC host's book on foreign policy leaves out too much of the story of how this mess began.
A new book misunderstands the libertarian-leaning portion of the Tea Party movement and exaggerates the importance of the movement's social conservatives.
Is rampant addiction to porn and video games really ruining a generation of men?
MSNBC host Christopher Hayes examines America's elites but misses important parts of the picture.
An indie gem with Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and Hollywood yocks with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn.