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Feature
Afghan Women Face the Future
As the US withdrawal looms, women’s rights advocates plan to carry on their fierce, lonely fight.
Ann Jones
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Did the NYPD Entrap Ahmed Ferhani?
The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.
John Knefel
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Time for a ‘Right to Vote’ Constitutional Amendment
How many dysfunctional election cycles are we going to endure before we accept the necessity of this reform?
John Nichols
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Raising Minnesota
The heat is on big banks and CEOs as labor and community activists band together.
Gabriel Thompson
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Editorial
Bob Woodward’s Tantrum, Bradley Manning’s Torment
As Beltway pundits were captivated by Woodward’s whining over an imaginary threat, the Obama administration was delivering on its real threats to Manning.
The Editors
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Supreme Court: Uphold the Voting Rights Act!
Section 5 is as necessary today as it was in 1965, when Alabama state troopers beat freedom marchers in Selma.
Ari Berman
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Noted
Roane Carey on the Supreme Court and surveillance, John Nichols on the FCC and dark money, Catherine Defontaine on same-sex marriage in France, the editors on Jeremy Scahill’s Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize
Various Contributors
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Why Are Democrats So Defeatist?
It’s because they are so beholden to their big-money contributors that they can’t fight the GOP even on issues that they know have overwhelming public support.
Ralph Nader
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Column
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Who’s Afraid of Sheryl Sandberg?
Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
Darkness Lit From Within: On A.B. Yehoshua
The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.
Vivian Gornick
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Endless Representation: On Giorgio Griffa and Thomas Nozkowski
Even when painting is abstract, it never ceases to be concerned with decoration.
Barry Schwabsky
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Jellyfish or Fossil? On Louis Agassiz
Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?
Brenda Wineapple
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Shelf Life
Robert Burley’s The Disappearance of Darkness, Harvey Wang’s From Darkroom to Daylight.
Lucy McKeon
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3274
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto