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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws

Illustration by Victor Juhasz March 27, 2013 7:00 AM ET
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1241 words)

60 Ridiculously Stupid Republican Quotes

Conservatives. You’ve gotta love them! Who would entertain us if we lost all of the Republicans? The things that so many of them say are stupid, out-of-touch, and sometimes, downright…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1667 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

Patti Smith: Family Life, Recent Loss, and New Album 'Gone Again'

Patti Smith in New York City. Catherine McGann/Getty Images She looks thin, frail, vulnerable. The hood of her sweat jacket is pulled up over her long, grayin
PUBLISHED: July 11, 1996
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1412 words)

'They were not thinking of him as a human being'

CHICAGO — By the time Carlos Centeno arrived at the Loyola University Hospital Burn Center, more than 98 minutes had elapsed since his head, torso, arms and legs had been scalded by a…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3499 words)

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 words)

Did ExxonMobil Pay Torturers?

This mass grave was uncovered in central Aceh, the province where a decade-old case alleges Indonesian soldiers hired by ExxonMobil tortured, killed, and assaulted villagers during a bloody civil…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1710 words)

How American Democracy Became Commercial Property

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.  A longer version of this…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3629 words)

The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)
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