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A federal judge last week abruptly postponed ruling on whether it was proper for prosecutors seeking wiretap permission to conceal their use of top members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang as informants. Meanwhile, the recent shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer by an LAPD officer has reignited a controversy over police reform that is at the root of the current courtroom drama.

In Georg Letham, Ernst Weiss turned to psychoanalysis to tap an atmosphere of unknown terror and mystery.

Rod Blagojevich's trial verdict showed that the line between criminal corruption and the base line corruption continues to blur.

Why did American televangelist Pat Robertson make a mining deal with accused war criminal and deposed Liberian President Charles Taylor?

Orhan Pamuk may be the face that Turkish literature turns to the West, but the novelist Yashar Kemal is its conscience and heart.

Jonathan Israel's epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.

Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has revolutionized international law--and now faces a suspension that could end his career.

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.