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Why the National Debate is Still Conducted on the Right's Terms

Peter Daou | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Peter Daou

In the inchoate anti-Obama rage manifesting itself today, we're seeing the result of years of radical rhetoric on the part of talk show hosts and pundits like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, O'Reilly and Coulter.

Milk, The Biopic and The Lesson

Josh Bolotsky | Posted 01.01.2009 | Entertainment


Josh Bolotsky

Milk manages to balance the needs of two very different films in its running time. It is, first of all, a superb biopic, as well as a meditation on the responsibility activists have to the people.