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Who's Right?
Why does a book so bad it "defecates on your bed" still have so many admirers?
On conjugating liberalism in Syria and Lebanon. An interview with journalist and author Samir Kassir
Did Congress quietly make it a crime for lawyers to defend terror suspects?
Gettysburg's status as a national symbol is inseparable from its commercial success.
Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968
The limitless promise of nanotechnology -- and the growing peril of a moratorium.
How a long-running movie walked the thin line between exploitation and education.