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Feature
How the Gun Industry Got Rich Stoking Fear About Obama
The NRA’s dire warnings that the president is a threat to the Second Amendment are bogus—but profitable.
Jarrett Murphy
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Locked Up Without a Key in New Orleans
Seven years after Katrina, poor people accused of crimes are being denied their right to counsel and left to languish behind bars.
Karen Houppert
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The Brawl Over Fair Trade Coffee
Corporate sponsorship is undermining a wide network of democratic, farmer-owned co-ops.
Scott Sherman
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Editorial
Last Chance for Peace in Syria?
The new UN envoy has a near impossible task. But Washington must support it—arming the rebels will only prolong the civil war.
The Editors
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Under Siege in Syria
As the revolt against the Assad regime becomes more militarized, fighting in the town of Zabadani has given way to daily, indiscriminate shelling.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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Paul Ryan, Class Warrior for the Rich
The jobs are gone in his hometown, but he’s sitting pretty in his mansion on the hill, a perfect metaphor for what a Romney-Ryan America would be like.
John Nichols
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The GOP’s Will to Fantasy
Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as running mate is another development in a long-term party trend: the triumph of ideology over reality.
Jonathan Schell
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Column
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Paul Ryan: The Man Who Wasn’t There
How the pundit class is turning a right-wing ideologue into a bold intellectual—and framing the election.
Eric Alterman
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Paul Ryan Goddam!
It’s time to update Nina Simone’s iconic song title—the GOP veep candidate is just as extreme on women’s health and rights as he is on economics.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Books & the Arts
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Shelf Life
W.G. Sebald’s Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001; Saturn’s Moons; Grant Gee’s Patience (After Sebald).
Peter C. Baker
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The Stone Dies Away Also: On Jimmie Durham
Does a sculptor destroy things or merely change them?
Barry Schwabsky
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Behind the Bureau: On the FBI
Tim Weiner’s Enemies is not so much a history of the FBI as a compendium of interesting historical material.
Beverly Gage
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3249
Don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto