Building a Citizen Politics

Remembering Paul Wellstone We mourn the passing of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila. Americans have lost... more

Election Daze

The Help America Vote Act may do just the opposite

Spirited Away

With a little help from a rotund forest spirit, a teen-age witch and the odd flying pig, Hayao... more

Let’s Make a Movie

The stout government minister, himself an actor in his youth for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, stood before a... more

Iran Behind the Screen

Women and cinema are controversial, problematic and significant topics in modern Iran, a nation that benefits from an... more

The Big Picture

So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so... more

Under the Gun

Here in Fredericksburg, Virginia, amid the fear and anger over the sniper rampage, one topic has been largely overlooked: how to revise... more

Editorial

Bush Apologistas

In the past couple of months, as the Bush administration flogs its plans for war against Saddam Hussein, a flurry of commentators,... more