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Personhood and Parenthoodby Jill Lepore

The defeat of Mississippi’s Amendment 26 is the latest twist in the century-long history of the birth-control movement…

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The Good of the Team?by Susan Orlean

Penn State and the tender trap of big-time college athletics.

Amy Davidson: Joe Paterno’s Silence

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Romney’s Bad Dayby Ryan Lizza

His handling of yesterday’s hot-button Election Day issues suggests some bloody weeks ahead…

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Hiding at Guantánamoby Amy Davidson

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri will be arraigned today in proceedings that will enter new territory, on a course that is only half-plotted…

Nicholas Schmidle: Military Trials and Justice

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Between Fashion and Art

Deborah Turbeville has reluctantly taken some of the most memorable fashion pictures of the past thirty-five years…

Judith Thurman on Deborah Turbeville

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Plus: Remembering Joe Frazier.

CULTURE DESK

Plus: Jerry West’s dream game.

Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs.
Jill Lepore on the Planned Parenthood.
James Surowiecki on debt and demand.
Louis Menand on George Kennan.
Sasha Frere-Jones on the Fall.
David Denby on “J. Edgar.”

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Letter From Italy

Have Italians had enough of Silvio Berlusconi?

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Annals of Law

Clarence and Virginia Thomas vs. health-care reform.

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The Arts

A Walmart heiress builds a museum.

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The Tea Party’s rise.

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New York City’s top prosecutor takes on Raj Rajaratnam.

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Are Cain and the Republicans serious?

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John Cassidy and James Surowiecki discuss Europe’s ongoing debt crisis.

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Peter Schjeldahl on the Islamic wing at the Met.

Samira Makhmalbaf’s “Blackboards.”

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