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Who’s the Victim in the Case of Michael Vick? Who’s the Victim in the Case of Michael Vick?

Michael Vick has a 10-year contract with the Atlanta Falcons for $130 million. His skill at running, kicking and throwing a football has won him the admiration of millions ...

Jul 26, 2007 / Katha Pollitt

Stuff Happens Stuff Happens

Reviews of No End in Sight, The Devil Came on Horseback, The Sugar Curtain and Sunshine.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Lives of Others The Lives of Others

Lois Gordon's new biography of Nancy Cunard brings the legendary heiress and activist back to life.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carla Kaplan

I’m Not the Man I Used to Be I’m Not the Man I Used to Be

The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.

Jul 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andreas Huyssen

The Missing Class The Missing Class

Sociologist Katherine Newman talks about the "near poor," that vast pool of workers who are neither officially destitute nor comfortably working-class.

Jul 26, 2007 / Feature / Eyal Press

A Grassroots Social Forum A Grassroots Social Forum

For 10,000 grassroots organizers at the first US Social Forum in Atlanta, the orations were secular and the pulpit was political.

Jul 26, 2007 / Feature / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

All Rupert, All the Time All Rupert, All the Time

Will Rupert Murdoch's play to own and operate the Wall Street Journal have a silver lining for liberals?

Jul 26, 2007 / Column / Eric Alterman

On the Latest Washington Scandal On the Latest Washington Scandal

David Vitter, caught in the act.

Jul 26, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Bronx Tale A Bronx Tale

From Providence to Los Angeles and even the Bronx, urban rivers that were polluted and even paved over are being restored.

Jul 26, 2007 / Tracy Tullis

Dangerous Privilege Dangerous Privilege

We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.

Jul 26, 2007 / Aziz Huq

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