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Feature
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The Outsider
Write-in candidate Donna Frye was the moral winner in San Diego’s mayoral race.
Abby Aguirre
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Porto Alegre Postcard
This year’s World Social Forum gave culture its due–and reaped the rewards.
Alisa Solomon
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Going Nowhere
In May 2003 the centrist Democratic Leadership Council published its yearly list of “100 New Democrats to Watch.” The DLC frequently puts out these lists as a way to publicly solidify its identif
Ari Berman
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Editorial
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Time to End Recidivism
What about the 178 women who will be released from US prisons every day of the year?
Richard M. Aborn
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Letter From Ground Zero
One of the most difficult things to judge in the world today is the extent of American power.
Jonathan Schell
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Hunter S. Thompson
He said he wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon. “A great funeral” was what he wanted, he told his son. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot himself dead in the head.
Warren Hinckle
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Filibustering the Truth
For more on judicial nominations, see Garrett Epps’s “Judicial Jeopardy: Questions for Nominees.”
Judd Legum and Christy Harvey
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Accounting for Torture
As an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, David Cole represents Maher Arar and Ahmed Abu Ali in their civil cases against the government.
David Cole
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Too Young to Die
The immediate outcome of the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 decision in Roper v.
The Editors
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Column
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The Cheese Stands Alone
Beijing Plus 10, the follow-up on the momentous 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, is opening at the United Nations as I write, and like other UN gatherings since George W.
Katha Pollitt
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Dr. Arnold’s Diet: Take a Steroid, Kick a Woman
Back in the early 1990s, the right-wing taste of the year was Newt Gingrich. He led the Republican sweep into Congress in the 1994 midterm elections.
Alexander Cockburn
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On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars
Though having Rock, some said, was plain insane, he
Eschewed the sort of language used by Cheney.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
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Rock the Casbah
What might it mean to call a film indispensable? Perhaps not much. At base level, we’d merely be asserting that other films (maybe the vast majority) are candidates for the garbage heap.
Stuart Klawans
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American Graffiti
In the works that made him famous, Jasper Johns realized an ancient dream by painting things that overcame the distinction between reality and representation–numerals, for example, or targets.
Arthur C. Danto
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Porto Alegre Postcard
This year’s World Social Forum gave culture its due–and reaped the rewards.
Alisa Solomon
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On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars
Though having Rock, some said, was plain insane, he
Eschewed the sort of language used by Cheney.Calvin Trillin
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