All 20 articles by Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Features
The Sordid Sexual History of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
A conspiracy to keep DSK's true identity out of the spotlight.
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The Godless Fundamentalist
In The Root of All Evil, biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his own lust for certainty
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Culture
The Power of Mean
Fuller argues that the moral power of Rankism = that everyone experiences being a somebody and a nobody - can overcome the innate force of bullying?
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Features
Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass
The Bush administration's pragmatic policy toward Pakistan suggests its foreign policy is less ideological than imperial
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The True Temptations of the West
Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond is a travelogue by Pankaj Mishra about the shadow of poverty in South Asia.
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Culture
Why Hemingway Is Chick-Lit
Women read more fiction than men.
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What Not to Watch
Makeover shows like "What Not to Wear" teach women to listen to their inner demons Makeover shows like "What Not to Wear" teach women to listen to their inner demons
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Culture
Perpetuating the Yellow Peril
At first glance, Jeff Adachi's Slanted Screen is an earnest documentary that covers familiar ground. The shameful depiction...
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Features
Charting a Sane Course in the Middle East
When the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, "everything changed." Or so people said. This...
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Features
To Hell With Caitlin Flanagan
The New Yorker writer is just one in long line of experts who have bullied overwrought parents over the past century
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Culture
Acting Your Race
The day after the 2006 Oscars, Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan penned a scathing critique of the academy's...
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Features
Men Growing Up to be Boys
Madison Avenue cultivates a Peter Pan version of masculinity
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Sex and the Septuagenarians
When I grow up, I want to be old. Old as in proudly, imperiously fat like my grandmother,...
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The ITT List
Whining about diversity?
When I worked on the cover story on blogs for In These Times, the idea was to take...
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Features
Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
We have no interest in being anti-establishment," says Matt Stoller, a blogger at the popular Web site MyDD...
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Culture
Postcards From the Front
Recent Iraq soldier memoirs display a 'whatever, dude' detachment
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Cowboys in Love
"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Leo Tolstoy...
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When Boys Will be Jarheads
There are two great Hollywood narratives about war. The "good" war version--think World War II epics--goes something like...
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The President’s Husband
"Commander-in-Chief" premiered on ABC's new fall line-up with little fanfare. The White House Project, a non-partisan group dedicated...
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Culture
Babes in BushWorld
Raunch culture offers good old-fashioned pleasure, Republican style
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