List of Culture articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Act of Empathy
Joshua Oppenheimer’s unsettling new film, "The Look of Silence," raises questions about the troubling relationship between global capitalism and western complicity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 5 Foreign-Policy Interviews That Will Most Make Us Miss Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is ending a strong run of foreign-policy interviews.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beijing’s Ban on Smoking Is Actually (Sort of) Working
That's no mean feat in a country that loves to light up.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Updated: Stallone Will Not Take on the Islamic State in New Movie
Iraqi armed forces, even with extensive support from Iran and the United States, have mostly failed to achieve meaningful victories against the Islamic State. But what armies have failed to accomplish, one man is set to achieve on the big screen.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Indian Zoroastrians Are Suing Snoop Dogg for Insulting Their Religion
Members of the Zoroastrian Parsi community in India are furious with American rapper Snoop Dogg, and they’re taking their anger to court.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Just What Makes a ‘Good European’?
Nietzsche, Merkel, and the long, strange history of an elusive idea. (Hint: They don’t listen to Wagner.)
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How North Korea’s Marchers for Peace Became Fellow Travelers
The Nobel Laureates and prominent activists who recently crossed into North Korea showed a shocking lack of sympathy for the North Korean people.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 If Only the World Could Fail Like Americans Do
Crises from the EU to China to the Middle East might become opportunities for bigger wins tomorrow.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can the Supreme Court’s Marriage Decision Help the World’s Most Homophobic Country?
Nigeria's draconian anti-gay law has trampled human rights, exacerbated the country's HIV crisis, and fueled vicious police crackdowns — and it isn't going anywhere.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The New Face of Global White Nationalist Terror
The Charleston shooter, like Anders Breivik, shows how the radical white right has become ever more unhinged and dangerous.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In California, Diddy Is an Alleged Terrorist. Under U.S. Law, Charleston Shooter Dylann Roof Is Not.
Rap mogul Diddy has been charged with making a terror threat by California authorities. Under U.S. law, Charleston shooter Dylann Roof isn't eligible to face the same.
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Street scene from the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Bloodsport
From cockfighting to buzkashi, Afghanistan’s pastimes are as brutal as the country’s history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 You Don’t Have to Watch ‘Jurassic World’ to See Bioengineered Animal Weapons
This summer's sci-fi blockbuster imagines a world where scientists genetically engineer animals for war. It's already here.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Gold, Skype-Equipped Shipping Container Being Used to Connect America With Iran
A gold-gilded shipping container, currently stationed in Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson Plaza, provides 20-minute video links to the Iranian capital of Tehran; Herat, Afghanistan; and Havana, Cuba.
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a-wacrop Sick Beats and Sykes-Picot
This Arabic-language, M.I.A.-inspired Israeli girl band from the Negev desert is looking to become the Arab world's next pop superstar. History isn't on its side.
