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Posted on: Nov 13, 2012, Source: Salon.com

120 million voters united only by the belief that the other side’s candidate was a nightmare, was only the most recent illustration of a profound cultural divide in American life.

Posted on: Oct 28, 2012, Source: Salon.com

While the candidates talk tough on al-Qaida and Iran's imaginary bomb, the real threats facing us go ignored

Posted on: Oct 25, 2012, Source: Salon

An alarming, hilarious documentary revisits the Tea Party-fueled fight over evolution and Obama in school textbooks.

Posted on: Sep 23, 2012, Source: Salon

To play a doddering old fool in public, in a vain attempt to bolster the most vapid, empty-suited loser in American political history – that’s just a bitter reminder of what time and tide will do to us all, no matter how badass we may be.

Posted on: Sep 15, 2012, Source: Salon

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are amazing in the just released film, Paul Thomas Anderson's gorgeous fable.

Posted on: Aug 15, 2012, Source: Salon

In her new book, Joan Walsh discusses the complex story of why many in the white working class turned conservative.

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: Salon

From the Muslim witch hunt to Hollywood's "The Watch," the paranoid style still infects our culture.

Posted on: Jul 8, 2012, Source: Salon

With "Savages," a hallucinatory and violent pot saga, the director returns to the days of "Natural Born Killers"

Posted on: Jun 7, 2012, Source: Salon

"Prometheus," the long-awaited "Alien" prequel, is an enthralling popcorn spectacle.

Posted on: Jun 1, 2012, Source: Salon

Summer movies beyond Batman, from male strippers to a Depression neo-noir to Matthew McConaughey's big comeback.

Posted on: Apr 27, 2012, Source: Salon

A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts.

Posted on: Apr 1, 2012, Source: Salon

With its sex-obsessed young heroine, "Turn Me On, Dammit!" goes where few movies have gone.

Posted on: Dec 15, 2011, Source: Salon

Emily Browning bares all in Australian director Julia Leigh's disturbing fable of a world without consequences.

Posted on: Dec 4, 2011, Source: Salon

Director David Cronenberg's new film, starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen, looks at the relationship between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein.

Posted on: Dec 16, 2001, Source: Salon

A stark and beautiful film traces an Afghan woman's journey across a landscape we may never understand.