Although more and more countries are abolishing capital punishment, over half the world’s population lives in four of the countries that continue to use it: India, Indonesia, China — and the United States. U.S. public opinion continues to move against the death penalty, but while some states have overturned capital punishment (or never had it), most still sentence people […]
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When Oscar de la Renta Told Hillary Clinton Not to Wear Black
The iconic fashion designer died yesterday at the age of 82.
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Home Is Where the Fraud Is
At the height of the housing crisis, one woman’s bureaucratic odyssey to discover who really owns her home leads her to startling revelations about the housing market.
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How To Get Appointed to the Senate
In late 2008, Democratic Colorado Governor Bill Ritter received a political stick of dynamite when President-elect Obama announced his intention to appoint U.S. Senator Ken Salazar as his Secretary of the Interior. Ritter would have to replace Salazar, a respected Latino legislator and a popular figure throughout the state. Ritter was inundated with resumés from prominent […]
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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What Hillary Wants
An in-depth 1992 profile of Hillary Clinton offers a fascinating snapshot of the pre-White House Clintons: The president is one of Hillary’s favorite targets, and she pillories him mercilessly in her speeches. “When it’s all stripped away,” she told the L.A. crowd, “at bottom what we see is a failure of leadership, rooted in a […]
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton, the Early Years
“The first time Elizabeth Warren met Hillary Clinton was in 1998, when the then–first lady requested a briefing on an industry-backed bankruptcy bill. Warren was impressed by Clinton’s smarts and steel, and credited her when Bill Clinton vetoed the bill in 2000. But the following year Hillary Clinton was a senator and she reversed her […]
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Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American?
On Iron Eyes Cody and “the tribe of the Wannabe.”
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Buried Alive in a Grain Silo
Grain-bin accidents have become a consequence of our massive corn consumption.
