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Robert W. Snyder

Robert W Snyder is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers-Newark University.

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To Iraq and back with the National Guard

A TV documentary series about “citizen-soldiers” in Iraq and their families at home is a moving portrait that exposes growing doubts about the war, says Robert W Snyder.

Gangs of New York gets New York City wrong

Martin Scorsese’s epic depiction of gang warfare in 19th-century New York is a mythology not based in, but stolen from history. Behind the inaccuracies of detail is a wider failure to grasp that the progress of the city was built not on violence, but on work and human solidarity.

A Congressional vote is not a national mandate

The US legislature has sanctioned the president to assault Iraq. George W. Bush has won a political victory, but the American people have yet to speak.