Rush Limbaugh's critics have long noted the factual errors and tortured logic that are regular features of his radio program. Not surprisingly, little has changed over the past few months as he has put his stamp on the health care debate. But Limbaugh does not only distort arguments about complex...

News coverage of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent trip to Africa provides useful examples of how power and privilege play out in the 24/7 media environment. By many accounts the trip was a big success. Clinton achieved one of her central goals: to bring international media attention to African...

Eminem is back and once again looming large over the pop cultural landscape. On the occasion of the release of his new album, Relapse, his full-length, full-color image appears literally larger than life on billboards in major cities from New York to Los Angeles, not to mention cities all over...

Identity politics is back on the front page, now that John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. This surprising new development in a long and tumultuous campaign is all the more notable because Republicans have traditionally criticized Democrats for playing the politics of race...

The following is a conversation between the philosopher Douglas Kellner and cultural critic Jackson Katz about school shootings and the crisis in masculinities.

Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and author of Guys and Guns Amok, recently published by Paradigm Press....

Presidential elections are always about race and gender. The reason people are talking about them now is that a black man and a (white) woman are serious contenders for a major party nomination. Their success is making visible what historically has been hidden in plain sight.

In every previous presidential...

Much has been written and said in the blogosphere and the MSM about the February 7 incident when MSNBC's David Shuster said on-air that Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" by Hillary Clinton's campaign. Most of the commentary has focused on allegations of a pattern of anti-Hillary sexism at MSNBC,...

Larry Flynt last month co-hosted a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in Los Angeles. Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth, joined Flynt and a number of other left-leaning Hollywood celebrities at a dinner November 16 at the headquarters of Larry Flynt Publications. At the dinner, Flynt endorsed Kucinich's bid...