Shell Games in Nigeria Shell Games in Nigeria
Prospects for lasting peace may depend on the oil company's dubious pledge to clean up its act.
Dec 16, 2009 / Feature / Sasha Chavkin
A Master of Disaster A Master of Disaster
John Dugan helped create the "too big to fail" economy--so why is he still regulating our banks?
Dec 16, 2009 / Feature / Zach Carter
America’s Secret ICE Castles America’s Secret ICE Castles
Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices.
Dec 16, 2009 / Feature / Jacqueline Stevens
Can Italy’s Neo-Fascist Change His Stripes? Can Italy’s Neo-Fascist Change His Stripes?
Gianfranco Fini rose to prominence as a champion of Mussolini. Now he's moved to the center, and in so doing has become the country's most responsible right-wing politician.
Dec 16, 2009 / Feature / Frederika Randall
Bolivia’s Next Steps Bolivia’s Next Steps
Following an overwhelming re-election victory, President Evo Morales intends to "accelerate the process of change."
Dec 16, 2009 / Feature / Benjamin Dangl
$75 and a Bus Ticket $75 and a Bus Ticket
Donald Gates spent the last 28 years in prison, convicted of a rape and murder he said he didn't commit. Yesterday, he was released from jail by the same j...
Dec 16, 2009 / Greg Kaufmann
Puzzle No. 258 Puzzle No. 258
ACROSS
1 Remembers what one does when the line is busy. (7)
Dec 16, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
Unidentified Unidentified
Hands touch--set off another round of deals and betrayals! I only hope I don't mistake whose lips and hands! Don't mix up all these break-ups and insomnias. When we let go, I'll try, my friend, to charge my memory! So you won't languish and expire like the others in my poems (the garbage heap of all my Casanovas!). So you won't be washed by rains for millennia, buried in my breast (mass grave for a thousand breasts!)... So you won't --you, my two-starred utter dark!-- end up one more corpse, gravemarker: Unknown. (Translated from the Russian byCatherine Ciepiela)
Dec 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Marina Tsvetaeva
Blackwater, Blackwater Blackwater, Blackwater
No one keeps track--so let's take a crack.
Dec 16, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin