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From the back seat of Steve Gates’s white Pontiac, Monique Robbins spotted Jasmine Coleman walking home from school alone. It was an icy December afternoon on Chicago’s South Side, and Jasmine’s only…

by Christopher Ketcham Published in the September/October 2011 issue of Orion magazine Photograph: William Steacy This is an early release of an article that will be published in the…

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by Robin Wright The Arab revolts of 2011 have transformed the image of the Islamic world. One young Egyptian womans struggle reflects the scope of…

But Christopher Hitchens! Ach, Christopher Hitchens. How I have loved him, despite the ordeals he has put me through. He'll go and be a fearful crank about atheism or "Islamofascism" for ages and I get all mad, and then he writes this freaking brilliant column about the Murdoch scandals and I'm crazy about him again. Old loves are like that.

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It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint. That's what she called me when I told her the story. We were drunk and in a karaoke bar, so at the…