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  • Editorial

    Wayne LaPierre Is Winning

    Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

    The Editors

  • Rape—Still No Joke

    Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

    Jessica Valenti

  • Noted

    Aura Bogado on the police killing of Manuel Diaz, Hamilton Fish on Iraq veteran Tomas Young, Robert Dreyfuss on “Obama’s General” versus drones, the editors on New York City’s stop-and-frisk trial

    Various Contributors

  • The Dark Side of DNA Evidence

    Collecting DNA upon arrest can identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent. But it also amounts to an expanding racial dragnet.

    Jason Silverstein
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  • Books & the Arts

    Made in the USA? Letter From London

    Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.

    Leo Robson

  • Shelf Life

    Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

    Ange Mlinko

  • Man in the Middle: On Philip Glass

    Philip Glass’s new opera, The Perfect American, is a mix of bluster and inspiration.

    Jonathan Blitzer
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