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With Health Care, Do Americans Still Need Moore?

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Corinne Goldenberg

In 2007, filmmaker Michael Moore released Sicko, a documentary that mocked and excoriated a failing H.M.O. health care system in the United States. Three years later, President Obama signed into law legislation that seeks to right some of the wrongs underscored in Moore's film. With health care for every American now in the pipeline, does the country still need this iconoclast? Corinne Goldenberg takes a second look at the controversial film.

These Modern Times

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Padmini Narumanchi

What can the Great Depression teach us about today's Great Recession? In her first installment in a multi-part series on the films of these two economic downturns, Padmini Narumanchi looks for some answers in Charlie Chaplin's classic Modern Times.

Witness to Genocide

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Corrie Hulse

In spring 2005, the World Policy Journal was the first magazine to publish the photographs of former Marine Captain Brian Steidle. His undaunted efforts to bring global attention to the unfolding genocide in Darfur, Sudan, were then captured in The Devil Came on Horseback. Corrie Hulse reviews the moving documentary that pleads for the international community to take action in order to save the lives of those facing mass atrocities in war-torn Sudan. 

 

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