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Sections

Politics

Crime Politics World

The War for Drugs

How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.

Sarah Hill Boston Review Jul 2010 Permalink

Politics World

The Mussolini of Ass

How sex scandals have made Silvio Berlusconi even more powerful in Italy.

Devin Friedman GQ Jun 2010 25min Permalink

Politics World

After the Crackdown

A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

John Lee Anderson New Yorker Aug 2010 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics Religion

The Christian with Four Aces

Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.

Bill Sizemore The Virginia Quarterly Review 40min Permalink

Politics World

What It’s Like to Be a Refugee in America

Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.

Mary Wiltenburg CS Monitor Jul 2009 10min Permalink

Politics

‘Why Has He Fallen Short?’

Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.

Frank Rich New York Review of Books Jul 2010 15min Permalink

Crime Politics

Top Secret America

A series on the U.S. intelligence system.

  1. Part 1: A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control

  2. National Security Inc.

  3. Part 3: The Secrets Next Door

Dana Priest, William M. Arkin Washington Post Jul 2010 55min Permalink

Politics World Religion

D’Escoto Inferno

Sandinista, reverend, and president of the U.N. General Assembly.

James Verini The New Republic Jun 2009 Permalink

Arts Politics Media

Prodigal Son

Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.

Ariel Levy New Yorker Jun 2010 35min Permalink

Politics

Washington's I.T. Guy

Carl Malamud is on a quest to change the way average citizens can interface with the government – by scanning its paperwork and making it available free online. And he’s financing his effort with his own credit cards.

Nancy Scola The American Prospect Jun 2010 10min Permalink

History Politics

The Founders’ Great Mistake

The founding fathers deserve at least some of the blame for the worst presidencies in American history—they created an office that’s vaguely defined and ripe for abuse. Plus: how to fix it.

Garrett Epps The Atlantic Jan 2009 15min Permalink

Arts Politics

Regard the Scuttlebutt as True

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

Paul Mariani First Things Jun 2010 Permalink

Politics World

The Land of Perpetual Revolution

What’s really happening in Kyrgyzstan.

Philip Shishkin Foreign Policy May 2010 20min Permalink

Politics

All the Obama 20-Somethings

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

Ashley Parker New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

Politics World

China Storms Africa

China is securing sub-Saharan Africa’s natural resources at a staggering rate. With the buying spree comes contracts, workers, and of course, politics. (Part 1 of a 6 part series, rest here)

Richard Behar Fast Company Jun 2008 Permalink

Arts Politics Media

¿Qué Pasa, Lou?

According to Lou Dobbs, we’re wrong about his stance on illegal immigrants, wrong about why he quit CNN, and wrong about his presidential aspirations. Well, we might actually be right about that last thing.

Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Apr 2010 25min Permalink

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