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Feature
Elizabeth Warren Insists She’s Not Running for President. These Activists Are Trying to Change Her Mind.
But would a Warren campaign help—or hurt—the causes she cares most about?
George Zornick
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Loving the Puget Sound to Death
Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines.
Madeline Ostrander
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How Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Distorts History
This Oscar-nominated doc is all about well-meaning Americans—with nothing about the indiscriminate US firepower that destroyed much of the country.
Nick Turse
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Editorial
How Mitt Got Bushwhacked in the GOP’s ‘Establishment Primary’
The Bush Machine plays for keeps—and this time, they hauled out the heavy artillery to shoot down Romney.
John Nichols
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The Oil Price Collapse Is Not Just Another Bust Cycle
This time, it could be long-lasting—with dramatic consequences for the climate, the economy and the global balance of power.
Michael T. Klare
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Why Did It Take 10 Years to Publish the Diary of a Guantánamo Detainee?
An interview with Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s attorney and his editor.
Jon Wiener
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Column
Why I Heart King Abdullah
He was an old-school monarch who made America feel good about itself again.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
How Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Distorts History
This Oscar-nominated doc is all about well-meaning Americans—with nothing about the indiscriminate US firepower that destroyed much of the country.
Nick Turse
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Camus Redux
Today, Albert Camus is still alive but changed, thanks to the art of David Oelhoffen and Kamel Daoud.
Alice Kaplan
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To Be (Charlie) or Not to Be (Charlie)?
Killing is not creating, and drawing is not killing. Charlie has the right to draw.
Kamel Daoud
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Fortune’s Son
Why the line from Barry Goldwater to Ted Cruz runs over Nelson Rockefeller.
Michael O’Donnell
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Letters
Letters
Actions speak louder; progress and poverty; learning from Teachout; don’t be fooled
Our Readers, Eric Alterman and William Greider
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3354
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto