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Dixie Chicks still ashamed of the president

MovieREVIEWShut Up and Sing Directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck The Weinstein Co., 2006, 93 min. The new documentary about the media flurry around the Dixie Chicks singing band brings recent American history into clear...

Profile of a Hollywood blacklist victim

The Hollywood blacklist of communist and suspected communist writers, actors, directors and others is widely viewed as having been an unconstitutional attack on civil liberties and political rights. Few people understand the basis on which the...

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2006: The ultra-right crashed in flames

WASHINGTON — 2006 was the year the people of the United States went to the polls and voted to end right-wing Republican majority control of the House, Senate and Statehouses across the nation. Led by the...

Too late Milton Friedman

Had Milton Friedman landed on earth in 1712, his work may have earned a mention in early national accounting schemes. But he was born in 1912, too late. Growing up in an epoch of crises, wars...