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, May 25, 2012
Should Tamms be saved for the jobs?
Sure, long-term solitary confinement may be torture, but it provides jobs.
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Things you should read: David Grann's "The Yankee Comandante"
Spending an hour or two with David Grann's "The Yankee Comandante"
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Art Spiegelman's era of neosincerity
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, May 7, 2012
On Robert Caro, LBJ, Clinton, editors, and deadlines
I have a personal reason for appreciating Robert Caro
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, May 2, 2012
For God, country, and the
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If you go to the trouble of killing Osama bin Laden, you may as well get it written up in the New Yorker.
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The puzzler and the puzzled
In which our writer searches through, down, and across the history of crosswords for clues on constructing his own
by Sam Worley
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, Mar 23, 2012
The Twitter debate
To tweet or not to tweet?
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, Mar 13, 2012
Obama's speaking dilemma
When Obama speaks, people listen—but does it matter?
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, Mar 8, 2012
Hoggamus, higgamus, Mitt's not polygamous
Rumors of Romney's surplus spouses are greatly exaggerated.
by Steve Bogira
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