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Editorial
Eric Holder’s Mixed Record
The attorney general was a champion of civil rights—but not civil liberties.
the Editors
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7 GOP Governors Who May Lose Re-Election
Their extremist policies have made them so vulnerable that corporate America is scrambling to save them.
John Nichols
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Column
A Tale of One City by David Brooks
For one-percenters like the Times columnist, city life has never been better.
Eric Alterman
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Run, Karen, Run!
Chicago Teachers Union leader Karen Lewis is eyeing Mayor Emanuel’s job.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
A Theater Without Qualities
Immersive theater has no real style—except to fetishize its look.
Ricky D’Ambrose
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China’s New Frontiers
How Africa and China’s own borderlands became the center of Beijing’s new empire.
Audrea Lim
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Poetry and Catastrophe
By privileging historical catastrophe, a new poetry anthology narrows the definition of art.
Benjamin Paloff
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Extinction Pop
Choreographed for maximum appeal, pop culture likes to say yes. History is made by those who say no.
Joshua Clover
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3339
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto