Communism

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The aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown reminds me of the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not in a good way
  • Tiananmen silence turns 20

    Two decades after the massacre in Beijing, the event remains a taboo in China.
  • The schizophrenic Obama

    Is the president selling out the working man, or waging class warfare on behalf of the proletariat? Because surely he can't be doing both at the same time?
  • It's a seafood-couscous Christmas!

    Vivid Arab-French immigrant yarn "Secret of the Grain" is a near-masterpiece; fascinating Brecht documentary "Theater of War" describes one.
  • The end of history, or the beginning?

    A reflection on current affairs
  • The man who shook the Kremlin

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
  • What John McCain didn't learn in Vietnam

    In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century.
  • Dalton Trumbo and American evil

    How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family.
  • The Little Tramp's killer comedy

    How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
  • Boisterous Boris

    Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
  • "The Lives of Others"

    This Academy Award-nominated film explores life in East Berlin under the Stasi -- and what it means to be human.
  • Should I stick with a failing business out of loyalty to my boss?

    I could jump ship, but it doesn't quite feel right.
  • The Wal-Mart dialectic

    For business reasons, Wal-Mart allows Communists to get organized. Meanwhile, China's middle class gets restive
  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
  • I was a Commie rock star from Colorado

    A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West.
  • The human monster

    The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path.
  • Rewriting the script

    Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
  • "There are leftists, but there is no left"

    In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean.
  • The logic of illogic

    In "Stasiland," writer Anna Funder talks to former members of the Stasi -- the communist East German security apparatus -- and to the people whose lives they destroyed.
  • "Radical Hollywood" by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner

    Two academics are so eager to find socialist themes in classic Hollywood films that they wind up lending credence to McCarthyism.
  • Ken Lay's un-American activities

    There is only one force that could be responsible for this man's undermining of the capitalist system!
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