“Sex is easy; love isn’t”: That’s the theme of the new film “EASY” . It opens in LA this weekend at Laemmle theaters. We’ll speak with writer-director Jane Weinstock. Watch the trailer for “Easy”: www.apple.com/trailers/independent/easy.html Death, love and liberty in the American ballad: GREIL MARCUS and SEAN WILENTZ have been listening to some classic American [...]
HOWARD ZINN says the argument that “Kerry won” is a diversion from the left’s real task: building the anti-war movement. His new book is Voices of a People’s History of the United States. LISTEN TO HOWARD ZINN at the Radio Nation audioblog: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/audioblog?pid=2019 plus: the Mideast after Arafat: comment and analysis from AMY WILENTZ, former [...]
Was the election stolen? Did something more foul than minor slip-ups and routine political chicanery occur? DAVID CORN of The Nation has been investigating: he concludes that those who say yes–at this point–are relying more on supposition than evidence. David Corn wrote the book The Lies of George W. Bush. Plus: historian SEAN WILENTZ says [...]
How did Bush win? comment and analysis on last night’s disaster from ROBERT SCHEER of the L.A. Times — he co-authored The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq; HAROLD MEYERSON of the LA Weekly and the American Prosect; JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation — he wroteDick: The Man who Is President ; and [...]