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Feature
Polygamists’ Kids in Their Own Private Gitmo
A mass detention. Vague legal charges. Emotional abuse. Hostile overseers. This isn't Guantánamo--it's Texas. And the victims are children the state wants to protect.
Richard Wexler
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‘Like He Died Twice’: Mary Tillman’s Lonely Quest
The mother of Pat Tillman--football star, Army ranger and casualty of war--reflects on how the Pentagon has distorted the truth and the NFL has exploited the tragedy.
Dave Zirin
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Got Milk? Get Investigated
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
David E. Gumpert
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Tiny Soap Bubbles
This Week: Kang and Valdez explore each other's bodies and minds, and somebody gets a gun slapped upside their head.
Gary Phillips
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Mixed Blessing
Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.
Tom Hayden
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Editorial
J. Edgar Hoover, Author
A new book reveals the FBI Director's distinctive relationship with his publisher.
Jon Wiener
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Noted.
Sam Adams shakes up Portland; the House votes for peace; we offer kudos to Kors and send get-well wishes to Ted Kennedy.
The Editors
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The Appeasement Card
Despite the Bush/McCain snake oil on Mideast policy, Obama can make the case that talking to your enemies isn't the same as appeasing Hitler.
The Editors
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Column
Where Is the Outrage Over Torture?
The muted response to revelations of torture raises the question of whether Americans are truly savages or simply tone-deaf on matters of morality.
Robert Scheer
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When Tiger Met Chevron…
Woods's partnership with Chevron makes a mockery of his late father's hopes for him.
Dave Zirin
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Déjà Vu in South Dakota
It's going to take a concerted national effort to defeat the state's latest anti-choice ballot initiative.
Katha Pollitt
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From Palmyra to Obama
Is it conceivable that Obama, Clinton or McCain could be as bad or worse than Bush?
Alexander Cockburn
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Election 2008: Where They Stand Now
Here's the latest on Barack Star, the Presumptive Deludee, the Ex-First Black President and more.
Ward Sutton
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Books & the Arts
Tight Corners
When Richard Price moves from the urban ruins of New Jersey to the gentrified Lower East Side of Lush Life, things get complicated.
Elaine Blair
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Beyond Belief
Can the wall between church and state balance the principles of neutrality and accomodation?
Jeff Sharlet
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The Power Conundrum
After railing against non-violent intervention in the face of genocide, Samantha Power rethinks her stand.
Michael Massing
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In the Lost Realm of the Real
Michael Dibdin's detective Zen series sounds a melancholy note for an old Italy rife with political enemies.
Carl Bromley
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Searching for Traces
There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.
Ruth Scurr
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The Reminder-General
Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.
Stefan Collini
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Dead Letters
Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig saw himself as a Freud of fiction--a fellow spelunker in the caverns of the heart.
William Deresiewicz
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Letters
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Crossword
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Puzzle No. 3128
ACROSS
1 Rex might be found here, but suffering from lack of favor. (2,3,8)
Frank W. Lewis