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Gangbangs in the Senate, "hideaway offices," $20,000 chairs: Your tax dollars at work.
By Jonathan Broder
May 20, 1997
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400 million strong, Pentecostals -- Holy Rollers, tongue-speakers, "negro ranters" -- have been called "Christianity's Third Force." And after generations in separate wildernesses, Pentecostal churches are returning to their original vision of inclusion across racial and cultural lines -- a vision some critics brand as heretical.
By Dan Ramirez
May 19, 1997
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Will the U.S.-backed push by NATO into central Europe start a new Cold War?
By Jonathan Broder
May 16, 1997
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The Swiss weren't the only ones to covet Nazi war loot. The French government has been equally dishonorable about returning wartime stolen paintings to their rightful owners.
By Andrew Taber
May 15, 1997
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Did we really nosh on each other's body parts -- or are we merely feeding on the dark recesses of fear and imagination?
By Kate Rix
May 14, 1997
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Juvenile crime has dropped, but you wouldn't know from the "blood bath of teen violence" rhetoric used to justify new laws aimed at America's youth.
By Vincent Schiraldi And Mark Kappelhoff
May 13, 1997
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Alfonse D'Amato and the Clinton administration have exposed Switzerland's role in laundering stolen Nazi loot and its intransigence in returning money after World War II. Trouble is, we've known this stuff for 50 years. Why is it suddenly news?
By Jonathan Broder
May 12, 1997
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Progress is being made and money is being spent, but women still need to "make some noise" if they're going to win the war on breast cancer.
By Lori Leibovich
May 9, 1997
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Military justice is starting to resemble the Southern "justice" of yore -- stacked against black men. And it's white feminists who are doing the stacking.
By David Horowitz
May 8, 1997
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A veteran CIA analyst says Iraq did use chemical weapons during the Gulf War, and that the U.S. government knew it but did nothing to protect American GIs.
By Jeff Stein
May 7, 1997
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Anne Matthews paints a
none-too-pretty picture
of life on campus in
"Bright College Years."
By Lori Leibovich
May 6, 1997
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Anti-government militias don't just bomb buildings
and take hostages. Increasingly they're using "paper
terrorism" -- fake courts, bogus liens, fraudulent tax
forms and kited checks -- to spread the word.
By Jonathan Broder
May 5, 1997
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In the military, that means rape and pillage at will -- and in your own ranks.
By Judith Levine
May 2, 1997
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... Same as the old boss? Or will Tony Blair be the
man to drag Britain kicking and screaming into the
modern world?
By Christopher Hitchens
May 1, 1997
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Does the Republic of Texas have a case?
By Jonathan Broder
April 30, 1997
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A panel of experts is about to recommend to the
National Institutes of Health that smoking pot
should be taken seriously as a possible way to treat
sick people.
By Ros Davidson
April 29, 1997
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An American anti-terrorism expert reveals how he trained Peruvian government police to storm the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and rescue the hostages who had been held for four months by guerrillas from the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
By Samuel G. Freedman
April 25, 1997
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The former Labor secretary was appalled by Dick
Morris, disappointed in Bill Clinton and amazed
that Alan Greenspan could have the president's
"balls in the palm of his hand."
By Lowell Weiss
April 23, 1997
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Timothy Leary is dead and well and blasting through outer space.
By Stephen Prothero
April 22, 1997
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You have nothing to lose but your shame.
In fact, you deserve protection like any other
consumer.
By Tracy Quan
April 21, 1997
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Newt Gingrich's "loan" from Bob Dole
to pay his ethics fine is an escape stunt
that would make Houdini gasp.
By David Corn
April 18, 1997
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A disturbing new documentary suggests that the first ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound was a publicity stunt that went terribly wrong -- and the FBI's raid was a blatant act of revenge.
By Ros Davidson
April 18, 1997
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From Bacon's rebellion to the populists to Oklahoma City, violent rural movements have deep roots in American history.
By Ros Davidson
April 18, 1997
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Netanyahu is history
By Jonathan Broder
April 17, 1997
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Banging the drum for CIA-crack conspiracy theories,
questioning the sex charges brought against black Army
officers by white enlisted women and passionately
defending
affirmative action, confrontational Rep. Maxine Waters
has risen to the top level of black political leadership.
By Lori Leibovich
April 16, 1997