“The Girl” is tough and mean
Meet Lisbeth Salander, standing 5 feet tall and 88 pounds, she is the toughest and meanest gangster movie protagonist to date.
A dramatic reawakening of a people’s movement
DETROIT - Two significant things happened in this beleaguered city recently that show the possibility of turning our country's problems around.
“Heat” in Cleveland
The life was sucked out of Cleveland yesterday, July 8, as LeBron James announced he would be joining Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami.
Of lynch mobs and lawsuits, immigration reform today
As the summer marches on, the possibility that a comprehensive immigration reform law be passed before the November elections is more and more problematic.
Totalitarian household: review of "Dogtooth"
Giorgos Lanthimos's recent film "Dogtooth" captures the physical and moral damage that occurs when what is perhaps the ultimate insult is visited upon otherwise healthy human beings.
A cold, grim look at life in Ozarks
Movie review: Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone" takes viewers to the dark, shady, shadowy and sinister world of meth labs in Ozarks.
New Jersey forces families into “pay to play” scheme
Ever since the November elections, the New Jersey middle class has been under attack from their newly-elected governor, Chris Christie.
It’s avec Pinon!
Movie review: "Micmacs" is full of amazing characters doing amazing mind-stretching things on film.
Eight keys to address the deficit
Labor leader Richard Trumka provides eight critical points to address the deficit in testimony to the White House National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Closing the racial wealth gap
Racial wage gap between black and white workers is shrinking, but the all-class gap between black and white is growing.
