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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Supreme Court Warning

The Terror Con

Warren Opposes Obama Nominee, Lawmaker Urges Gender-Role Class for Kids, and More

Rachel Maddow Gives Emotional Tribute to Michael Hastings

REPORTS

Quelle Surprise! Haiti on the Mend
By Mark Kurlansky

How American University Got Involved in Israel’s Public Interest
By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law

Dead Man Walking, 20 Years On
By Amy Goodman

Immigration: Time to Choose Sides
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Ear to the ground

Warren Opposes Obama Nominee, Lawmaker Urges Gender-Role Class for Kids, and More

Wall Street Doesn’t Like What Fed Chairman Has to Say

Serena Williams Walks Back ‘Insensitive’ Steubenville Rape Comments

FBI Confirms Drone Use Over U.S. Soil

What Snowden Told Us This Week

Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

A/V Booth

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Supreme Court Warning

Rachel Maddow Gives Emotional Tribute to Michael Hastings

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Arts & Culture

Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

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The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

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Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

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Tag: Loyalty

City Employees Say Giuliani Demanded Blind Obedience

Rudy Giuliani has made much of his time as mayor of New York, but a growing number of his former lieutenants are speaking out about his dictatorial ways. As one former city commissioner put it: “People used to say that if Mayor Koch said, ‘Let’s kill all 12-year-olds, everyone working around him would freely tell him, ‘You’re crazy,’ but if Mayor Giuliani said it, then everyone would say, ‘Brilliant, Rudy! Have you thought of killing 13-year-olds, too?’ ”

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Hacks and GOP Loyalists Abounded in Rebuild-Iraq Effort

Loyalty to the Bush administration trumped qualifications and know-how among the people sent to rebuild postwar Iraq. Guess who screened the candidates? James O’Beirne, husband of the National Review’s Kate O’Beirne.
As Andrew Sullivan says, “so many pundits married to so many party officials - it gets hard to keep them straight at times.”