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Obama vs. Poverty

A street in Roseland, the struggling Chicago neighborhood where a young Barack Obama worked as a community organizer. More Photos » From the back seat of Steve Gates’s white Pontiac
AUTHOR:Paul Tough
PUBLISHED: Aug. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (716 words)

Fussbudget

“If you’re going to criticize, you should propose,” Ryan says of his budget plan.
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (929 words)

Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough?

Greg Ousley, who is serving a 60-year sentence for murdering his parents at age 14. For 19 years, Greg Ousley has sought to make sense of the event that has haunted and dictated his life, but the…
PUBLISHED: July 19, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (725 words)

The Flight From Conversation

WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At…
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1782 words)

The Flight From Conversation

WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At…
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (684 words)

The Supreme Court Phalanx

1. The revolution that many commentators predicted when President Bush appointed two ultra-right-wing Supreme Court justices is proceeding with breathtaking impatience, and it is a revolution…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 27, 2007
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1917 words)

Puberty Before Age 10

Ainsley, who began growing pubic hair at age 6, and her mother, Tracee Sioux. One day last year when her daughter Ainsley was 9, Tracee Sioux pulled her out of her elementary school in…
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4506 words)

When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"  (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty…
AUTHOR:David Frum
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (873 words)

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Its no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nations income every year. In terms of…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2232 words)
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