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Editorial
Mad About the IRS Mess? Blame Congress
It’s absurd to expect agency auditors to sort out confusing, outdated campaign finance laws and regulations.
The Editors
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Noted
Aura Bogado on deportations before immigration reform, Greg Mitchell on the Department of Justice and the AP, the editors on advertising legend George Lois
Various Contributors
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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 conservative.
John Nichols
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How to Fix Journalism’s Class and Color Crisis
The future of media must include all of us.
Farai Chideya
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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.
David A. Love
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Column
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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.
Jessica Valenti
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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.
Peter C. Baker
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Adler’s Way
The slowly panic-making power of Renata Adler’s novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark.
Alexandra Schwartz
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Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra
Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
Thomas Meaney
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Rome’s Cassandra: On George Weigel
The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.
Paul Baumann
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Deliriums and Descents
In Metaphysical Dog, a poet continues his unending, obsessive arguments with himself.
Robert Boyers
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In Our Orbit
Victor Navasky’s The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power
John Palattella
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3284
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto