Mad About the IRS Mess? Blame Congress
It’s absurd to expect agency auditors to sort out confusing, outdated campaign finance laws and regulations.
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June 3, 2013 Issue
Cover art by: design by Doug Chayka
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Editorial
Chris Christie, a GOP Moderate? Fuhgeddaboudit!
The governor needs to peddle a moderate image to win re-election in New Jersey, but on everything from reproductive rights to the environment to austerity, he’s very conse...
How to Fix Journalism’s Class and Color Crisis
The future of media must include all of us.
Abolition in Maryland
“I killed the thing that almost killed me,” said Kirk Bloodsworth, who faced execution in Maryland, the latest state to outlaw capital punishment.
Column
Why I’m Voting for Her
In 2016, I’m casting my vote for a woman. Not because she’s guaranteed to be the most feminist candidate, but because I’m fed up.
Books & the Arts
Fight Clubs: On Napoleon Chagnon
One anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.
Adler’s Way
The slowly panic-making power of Renata Adler’s novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark.
Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra
Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
Deliriums and Descents
In Metaphysical Dog, a poet continues his unending, obsessive arguments with himself.
In Our Orbit
Victor Navasky’s The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power
