Military Detention for Journalists
Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?
Print Magazine
June 11, 2012 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Editorial
Orlando Figes and Stalin’s Victims
A book by the famous British historian was not published in Russia because the Moscow publisher discovered too many errors and misrepresentations—not, as Figes suggested, ...
Column
All the Media Money Can Buy
Why do journalists run interference for the 1 percent, when their job is to expose their schemes?
The GOP’s Played-Out Race Card
Republicans are turning to tired, failed strategies in an effort to alienate both black and white voters from President Obama.
Letters
Letters
On Dorothea Lange, Michael Harrington, Earth Day and solitary confinement
Feature
Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream
Hey, look it over—public ownership is the most effective way to fix America’s economy.
The Dirty Secrets of Rocky Flats
The legacy of Colorado’s notorious nuclear plant is radioactive waste in a residential community—and public distrust of government.
Honduras: Which Side Is the US On?
In the name of fighting drugs, the Obama administration has allied itself with a corrupt coup regime.
Books & the Arts
Orlando Figes and Stalin’s Victims
A book by the famous British historian was not published in Russia because the Moscow publisher discovered too many errors and misrepresentations—not, as Figes suggested, ...
Extreme Indolence: On the Fiction of Albert Cossery
For Albert Cossery, the world is split between those who respect a cause and those who don’t give a tinker's damn.
Outrageous
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator; Emad Brunat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras
