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Feature
What Monsanto Knew
In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.
Nancy Beiles
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The NRA Wants You
Research assistance was provided by the Elections 2000 Fund of the Nation Institute.
Bob Dreyfuss
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Editorial
The Battle of Vieques
Puerto Ricans’ opposition to the Navy’s suffocating presence had been brewing long before the sit-in.
Ed Morales
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Column
Underground Against the Taliban
The atrocities of the Afghan Taliban toward women have been widely reported in the Western press: women banned from work; forbidden to leave their homes unless shrouded in the burkha, a voluminou
Katha Pollitt
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Second Thoughts on the Family Values Front
Republicans, observing young González
Removed at night, thought they could take some solace
From hearings showing Reno as a baddie.Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Village Idiots, Then & Now
To watch Lars von Trier’s The Idiots is to see a dead dog rise and howl at the moon.
Stuart Klawans
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A Closing of the American Kind
You will recall that when Augie March went to Mexico, he hooked up with an eagle, which he called Caligula.
John Leonard
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