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The Fifty-First State?

Over the past few months I interviewed several dozen people about what could be expected in Iraq after the United States dislodged Saddam Hussein. An assumption behind the question was that sooner or…
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9704 words)

The NRA vs. America | Politics News

Fredrik Brodén Eleven days after the massacre, Wayne LaPierre – a lifelong political operative who had steadied the National Rifle Association through many crises – stood before an…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (912 words)

Rachel Maddow's Quiet War | Politics News

Rachel Maddow Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC "So just who is Sarah Palin?" This is Keith Olbermann talking, back in the summer of 2008, when the Alaska governor is brand-new to the national scene and…
PUBLISHED: June 27, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1675 words)

The Supreme Court's Obamacare Decision: Full Text

By The Editors Read the entire ruling, including opinions by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Justice Anthony Kennedy. Here is the Court's ruling. You can read one…
PUBLISHED: June 28, 2012

The Vietnam Solution

The effect of Hanoi is cerebral. What the Vietnamese capital catches in freeze-frame is the process of history itself—not merely as some fatalistic, geographically determined drumroll of…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1334 words)

Her Honor

(Photo: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States) The inside of the ceremonial courtroom of the United States Supreme Court—where formal oral arguments are heard from October…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (795 words)

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Disorder in the Court

In April 2000, a Vermont musician named Diana Levine went to the hospital with a migraine. There, a nurse incorrectly injected Phenergan, an anti-nausea drug,…

The Brain on Trial

On the steamy first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1152 words)
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