Slant Magazine

The 36th Telluride Film Festival by Jason Klorfein

Diablo Cody Interview by Ryan Stewart

I had intended to write a series of blog entries on health care reform this summer focusing not only on already well-documented problems within the system and challenging illogical, boogeyman arguments ...

For the past several weeks I've wanted to comment on the industry-organized lobbying efforts masquerading as grass-roots outrage about health care reform, but each time I tried to write something, my head nearly exploded at the futility and nonsensicality of it all. ...

The Republican Party is so bankrupt of new ideas that they've taken to co-opting every criticism that was launched at the Bush administration for eight long years and lobbed them right back at Barack Obama. ...

An Interview with Matisyahu by Matthew Cole

The fear-mongering attempts to "break" Barack Obama and his health care reform agenda, or at least delay it and therefore its momentum, are flimsy at best. Desperate to paint any kind of reform ...

The villains in the battle over health care reform in the U.S. are obvious, right? The insurance and pharmaceutical companies are not-so-quietly lining the pockets of their corpulent, greedy CEOs, who ...

Kathryn Bigelow Interview by Ryan Stewart

Upon hearing of Michael Jackson's death yesterday, one of the first things that popped into my head was: "Have you seen my childhood?" I say that as naïvely and as free from cynicism as I can. ...

A good friend of mine worked at Planned Parenthood on the West Coast a few years ago. Though she was and still is fiercely pro-choice, she eventually left the clinic because administering abortions, even early ones, was too emotionally and mentally taxing for her. ...

Rush Limbaugh is calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's resignation. On his radio show last week, the right-wing lightning rod babbled something about glass ceilings and equality—the kind of pseudo-progressive ...

Guillermo Del Toro Interview by Ryan Stewart

In 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services toned down an advertising campaign informing the public of the potential health risks of not breastfeeding babies. Naturally, the formula industry had a cow, and they lobbied hard against the ads and won. ...