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Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame?

For years, radioactive waste has seeped into swampland, canals—even drinking water. Now a few families are fighting to hold the polluters accountable.

Sharon Lerner

The GOP Is Winning the War on Voting

Voters in fourteen states—many with tight races—will face new restrictions at the polling booth for the first time in November.

Ari Berman

Even Red-State Voters Want to Raise the Minimum Wage

Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying no.

John Nichols

A Q&A With Charles Blow on Race, Poverty, Sexual Predators and the CIA

The New York Times columnist discusses his new book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

Jon Wiener

How Art Can Change Minds

Political cartoons can move only if they surprise.

Mr. Fish

Snapshot: Riot for the Return of the Disappeared

Felix Marquez

A New Documentary Profiles Liars for Hire

Today’s corporations have taken a page from the tobacco industry, fooling the public and undermining science in order to boost profits, no matter the human cost.

Eric Alterman

Will Your Child Grow Up to Be Victim or Torturer?

While 90 percent of teens break the law, only some enter a violent system.

Patricia J. Williams

Texas Voter-ID Law Reinstated

Calvin Trillin

A Q&A With Charles Blow on Race, Poverty, Sexual Predators and the CIA

The New York Times columnist discusses his new book, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

Jon Wiener

Vanishing Act

You’ve probably never heard of Martin J. Sklar. But you should have.

James Livingston

Acts of Treason

For Rian Malan, seeking atonement doesn’t necessarily mean one will attain it.

André Naffis-Sahely

Uncontained City

The Third World collides with the First in Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life.

Madison Smartt Bell

In Our Orbit: Pleasures and Predicaments

In the poems of Peter Gizzi, the powers of tradition meet and mingle.

Frances Richard

Letters

Demand green, people!… “vices and follies”… Goodbye, Confucius… whiter shade of pale…itsy bitsie tennie weenie… why? why? why?…

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And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto