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June 15, 2009 Issue

Joshua Freeman on Chicago garment workers, Teo Ballve on Plan Colombia, David Margolick on the New York Times…

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Editorial

Return of the Fabulous

In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.

Noted.

Meltdown in Motown: A Nation forum in Detroit gauges the city's pain and looks for solutions.

Tiananmen at Twenty

China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.

Column

Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge

To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor's rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice--no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the...

Letters

Feature

A Killing in Kansas

Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealo...

Mr. Abbas Goes to Washington

Though President Obama met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 28, there's little evidence that the United States is encouraging real progress toward a two-state...

Books & the Arts

Return of the Fabulous

In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.

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