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May 26, 2014 Issue

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Editorial

‘Nation’ Exclusive: Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Take on America’s Runaway Surveillance State

“The first principle of any American intelligence official is not an oath to secrecy but a duty to the public, a commitment to speak truth to power.”

Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras

Snapshot: Last Supper Denied

Plates by artist Julie Green illustrating final-meal requests by death-row inmates, including Clayton Lockett’s requested last meal: steak with A-1 sauce, shrimp with cocktail sauce, a baked potato, garlic butter toast, a pecan pie and Coca-Cola Classic with ice. The request was denied because it exceeded $15. He refused an alternative. Read More

Column

Obama’s Pundit Problem

Critics like Maureen Dowd of the Times live in an Oz-like dream world.

Condoleezza Rice Withdraws as Rutgers Commencement Speaker in Face of Protest Over Her Promotion of the War in Iraq

The Oklahoma Way of Death

The “botched” execution of Clayton Lockett should shatter the illusion that lethal injection is neither cruel nor unusual.

Letters

Letters

Al Jazeera—just the news… BDS: Palestinians’ “best hope”… younger than springtime…

Our Readers and Eric Alterman

Feature

How to Shrink Inequality

It’s not inevitable. Here are ten practical steps to reverse the growing trend.

Robert B. Reich

Elizabeth Warren Explains Why She Ran for Office

And vows to fight for people who got screwed by Wall Street.

Elizabeth Warren

University Presses Under Fire

How the Internet and slashed budgets have endangered one of higher education’s most important institutions.

My Memories of Gabriel García Márquez

What more could a young writer want than to spend hours and hours with the greatest author alive?

Books & the Arts

University Presses Under Fire

How the Internet and slashed budgets have endangered one of higher education’s most important institutions.

My Memories of Gabriel García Márquez

What more could a young writer want than to spend hours and hours with the greatest author alive?

Hungary and the End of Politics

How Victor Orbán launched a constitutional coup and created a one-party state.

Kim Lane Scheppele

Antiquity Too

Christian Wiman

They Have No Graves

Catholic Innocence meets Jewish Experience after the Holocaust in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida.

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