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  • Purifying America's Textbooks of Ethnic Studies

    Commentary

    By Dan Vera, Yesterday

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    If right wingers are going to purge "ethnic studies" from America's textbooks, then they'll have to purge history too.

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  • What Do They Do?

    Commentary

    By E. Ethelbert Miller, March 21, 2013

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    Would you recognize a torturer if you saw one?

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  • The Banal Militarism of Hollywood

    Commentary

    By Fouad Pervez, February 26, 2013

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    Appealing to jingoism is certainly easier than prompting national introspection, but is priming an audience for blood what we call art today?

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  • Eating History

    Commentary

    By John Feffer, February 25, 2013

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    Despite its triumphalism, the GDR museum in Berlin suggests that reunification remains an unfinished business.

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  • Cerebus

    Commentary

    By Beth Copeland, February 8, 2013

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    When we reach the adamantine gates of Iraq, it's too late to turn back.

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  • Pomegranate Means Grenade

    Commentary

    By Jamaal May, February 1, 2013

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    Identify war by what it takes away.

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  • "Argo" and Hollywood's Muslim Problem

    Commentary

    By Fouad Pervez, December 6, 2012

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    While well-intentioned, "Argo" falls into the common Hollywood trap of making Muslims into a monolithic Green Menace.

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