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Feature
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Killing Reconciliation
How brutal raids are sabotaging the political strategy the US claims to support in Afghanistan.
Jeremy Scahill
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Judging the War Crimes Tribunal
The International Criminal Court has had setbacks—but it’s already having an impact.
Barbara Crossette
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Editorial
Time for a Cease-Fire
Can talks with the Taliban end the war in Afghanistan? If Obama wants to find out, then he must halt combat operations, night raids and drone attacks.
The Editors
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(G)rêve général(e) in France
The French Parliament has passed President Sarkozy’s controversial law raising the retirement age, and nationwide protests against the measure have eased. But the struggle against austerity measures is far from over.
Agnès Catherine Poirier
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Noted.
Ryan Devereaux on what WikiLeaks tell us about war crimes, Jeff Biggers on coalfield justice and Kate Murphy on discrimination against women in the workplace
Various Contributors
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The Rosenberg Variations
A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still matter?
Victor Navasky
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Column
Postcards From Cape Town
Traveling in South Africa, you learn that one great thing about the country is that no one engages in small talk.
Katha Pollitt
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To Whom Apologies Are Really Due
Ginni Thomas’s insistence that Anita Hill apologize is an apt metaphor for the long history of blaming black women for social ills.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
The Rosenberg Variations
A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still matter?
Victor Navasky
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Shelf Life
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Robert Darnton’s Poetry and the Police, Jeremy Harding’s Mother Country
John Palattella
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The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde
Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?
David Wallace-Wells
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The Impasse: On Martin Solares
The Black Minutes, a nuanced neo-noir, conveys how narco-violence has leached the Mexican justice system of meaning.
Natasha Wimmer
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In Our Orbit: Dean’s Way
Ari Berman’s Herding Donkeys shows how Howard Dean’s unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination was the foundation for Barack Obama’s victory in 2008.
Kate Murphy
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Letters
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