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    Consider this my letter of resignation from the culture commentary business. Starting today, I'm re-enlisting in the army of adults whose experience, insight, wisdom and wit are required if we are to improve as a nation of parents and grown-ups. I'm rolling up my sleeves and getting into the advice arena.

  • Neil LaBute play highlights off-Broadway festival

    Next week, you'll get the chance to see a small play by Neil LaBute that's running off-Broadway. If you do, you'll have a leg up on LaBute _ he's never seen it.

  • Economic disparity docs occupy Sundance fest

    The Sundance Film Festival is all about diversity and inclusion. Two of its documentaries are all about disparity and exclusivity _ economic inequality that has left a rising gap between the super-rich and everyone else.

  • World Briefs: Occupy London activists stage cathedral protest

    Several supporters of the anti-corporate Occupy movement chained themselves to the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral during a service on Sunday in an action marking the anniversary of the group's now-dismantled protest camp outside the London landmark.

  • WILLIAMS: Change we’ve been promised is a change of fools

    It's astounding how quickly things can change over four years.

  • Twitter hands over records in NY Occupy case

    Twitter on Friday agreed to hand over about three months' worth of tweets to a judge overseeing the criminal trial of an Occupy Wall Street protester, a case that has become a closely watched fight over how much access law enforcement agencies should have to material posted on social networks.

  • Police officers use their bicycles to create a perimeter to keep protesters inside a designated area along Stonewall Street in Charlotte, N.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Protesters are allowed to march and demonstrate at the Democratic National Convention but are being kept well away from DNC venues. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Free-speech zone proves audience-free

    Standing atop a creaky wooden platform above a muddy, fenced-in field, protester Bob Kunst gave a dozen or so cardboard rubbish bins near the Democratic National Convention a piece of his mind.

  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Rodney Monroe talks July 19, 2012, during an interview in his office in Charlotte, N.C. (Associated Press)

    Charlotte police say they're ready for protests at DNC

    For this summer's Democratic National Convention, Charlotte will add thousands of police from outside departments and spend millions on training, equipment and temporary barriers. But their biggest aid in crowd control will be one they didn't have to purchase, build or teach: The layout of the city itself.

  • Damon: Public fury burns leading into election

    Matt Damon says there's a sense of fury in the U.S. over banking scandals and financial inequality that neither Democrats nor Republicans are addressing in their presidential campaigns.

  • **FILE** Participants in 'Occupy Philadelphia' march Oct. 6, 2011, near City Hall in Philadelphia. (Associated Press)

    National Occupy gathering set for July 4 in Philly

    Get ready for Occupy Fourth of July in the cradle of liberty.

  • Illustration: Occupy Wall Street by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    DECKER: Obama's mythical 99%

    A brand new Cadillac Escalade hybrid rolled down the posh streets of Old Town Alexandria, Va., on Friday morning. On the tailgate of this $78,000 luxury SUV was an Obama campaign bumper sticker carrying a simple message: "99%." These limousine liberals just don't get it.

  • Margaret Nelson, center, from Evanston, Ill., joins about 100 anti-war activists as they march down Michigan Avenue after rallying outside President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in downtown Chicago, protesting for an end to NATO operations in Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

    Nurses' pre-NATO rally expected to draw thousands

    Thousands of nurses and other protesters planned to rally at a downtown Chicago plaza Friday ahead of a two-day NATO summit and as a prelude to a much larger demonstration expected this weekend.

  • FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony discusses an alleged bridge-bombing plot on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at the bureau's Cleveland office. Five men have been arrested. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

    5 indicted in alleged plot to bomb Ohio bridge

    Five men suspected of plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge were indicted Thursday on three counts each, including a new charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction to destroy property in interstate commerce.

  • Riot police seize a protester at the G-8 and G-20 summits in Toronto in 2010. Protests at this month's NATO Summit in Chicago will miss an opportunity to double up on the G-8 because President Obama moved it to Camp David. (Associated Press)

    G-8 move puts protest plans in flux

    The stage seemed set for an epic showdown: G-8 and NATO leaders planned to hold back-to-back summits in Chicago that activists predicted could draw tens of thousands of people protesting everything from war in Central Asia to unemployment and education cuts at home.

  • Jesse Morgan, carrying a sign that reads, "Radical Queers Resist," stands to the side of immigration protesters Tuesday in Atlanta. May Day rallies in the U.S. focusing on immigration have become increasingly splintered by other causes. (Associated Press)

    Immigration movement weakening

    Over the last several years, May Day rallies in the United States have been dominated by activists pushing for a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally. But since 2006, the rallies have gotten smaller, less focused and increasingly splintered by any number of groups with a cause.

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