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Alisa Solomon

Alisa Solomon is a journalist and theater critic in New York and is on the faculty at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Currently

  • Staged Reading

    July 29, 2008

    How Judith Thompson's play about Abu Ghraib falls short.

2007

  • Out of Africa

    February 15, 2007 Subscribe

    The World Social Forum marched into Nairobi full of conflict, action and ideas.

2005

  • Memorial Chauvinism

    September 8, 2005 Subscribe

    The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.

  • Terror Hysteria Gone Absurdist

    July 22, 2005

    Steve Kurtz is being persecuted to warn off anyone who dares to contest the joint enterprise of science, profit, Pentagon and state.

  • GI Loses First Round in Canada Asylum Bid

    March 29, 2005

    Jeremy Hinzman fled north rather than be deployed in a war he regards as a "criminal enterprise."

  • Porto Alegre Postcard

    March 3, 2005

    This year's World Social Forum gave culture its due--and reaped the rewards.

  • Another World Turns

    January 30, 2005

    Imagining the possibilities at the World Social Forum.

2004

2003

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Podcast

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/18/08
This week: Christian Parenti on the Chinese middle class and the impact of the Olympics. Plus: Esther Kaplan and Eric Foner on the Democratic Party's unexpected struggle for the blue collar vote. (13mb mp3)

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