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June 2010

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as U.S. president—Pictorial works; Chicago (Ill.); Homes and haunts—Pictorial works; 2009- PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The vanishing liberal, from April 2010: Letter By Nijil Saval Letter By Bo Richardson On On spectrum, from April 2010: Letter By Lise Davidson Letter By Marye Elmlinger PDF TEXT IMAGES
6-9	Notebook/Article Is Sarah Palin porn? By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Career in U.S. politics; Press and politics; Palin, Sarah; Television in politics; Women political activists PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-18	Readings/Article Why I write By Barry Hannah SEE ALSO: Hannah, Barry; Biography; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Art/illustration The coming solitude By Hernan Bas SEE ALSO: Solitude PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Crystal metaphors SEE ALSO: Slang; Utah PDF IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Article Westmuenster SEE ALSO: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; Mice PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Poetry Xenicus longipes By Kimiko Hahn PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Coin strategy SEE ALSO: Casualties; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Reparations PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Photography Dimma By Riitta Päiväläinen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Landscapes; Shirts, Men's PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Sheiks and geeks SEE ALSO: Domestic terrorism; Electronic discussion groups; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Jihad; Qaida (Organization); Mehanna, Tarek; Terrorists; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
22-27	Readings/Fiction Afraid to be men By Padgett Powell PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photography [Untitled Photography] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alberta; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Drama White-wing militia By Kristopher Sickles PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Art/illustration Untitled (spaghetti night) By Nadia Moss SEE ALSO: Cartoon characters; Masks PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Collection Readings By Robert Voit (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Sacramento, California, USA By Robert Voit (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cell-phone towers; Disguise; Sacramento; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Norscot Sandton, South Africa By Robert Voit (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cell-phone towers; Disguise; South Africa; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Hundon Haverhill, Great Britain By Robert Voit (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cell-phone towers; Disguise; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Mobile home park, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA By Robert Voit (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cell-phone towers; Disguise; Las Vegas; Nevada; Trees PDF IMAGES
29-37	Article In the loop: Obama's hometown takes Washington By Ben Austen SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as mayor of Chicago; Career as U.S. president; Chicago (Ill.); Chicagoans; Homes and haunts; 2009-; Political participation; Daley, Richard M. (Richard Michael); Staff PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
38-50	Article Own goal: How homeless soccer explains the world By Wells Tower SEE ALSO: Career as homeless soccer player; Viveros, Diego; Homeless persons; Homelessness; Services for; Soccer; Christie, Tad; Tournaments; Victoria PDF TEXT IMAGES
51-55	Collection Soundsuits By Nick Cave PDF IMAGES Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Nick Cave SEE ALSO: Costume; Fur garments; Wearable sculpture PDF IMAGES
52	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Nick Cave SEE ALSO: Costume; Tops; Wearable sculpture PDF IMAGES
53	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Nick Cave SEE ALSO: Costume; Wearable sculpture PDF IMAGES
54	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Nick Cave SEE ALSO: Buttons; Costume; Wearable sculpture PDF IMAGES
55	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Nick Cave SEE ALSO: Costume; Fur garments; Wearable sculpture PDF IMAGES
57-64	Article All that glitters: An ex-jeweler reveals the art of the swindle By Clancy W. Martin SEE ALSO: Las Vegas; Nevada; Swindlers and swindling; Trade shows PDF TEXT IMAGES
65-70	Fiction please, thank you By Dagoberto Gilb PDF TEXT IMAGES
71-72	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Another science fiction: advertising the space race 1957-1962 (Book); Ill fares the land (Book); Chapman, Maile; Wilmers, Mary-Kay; Prelinger, Megan Shaw; The Eitingons: a twentieth-century story (Book); Judt, Tony; Your presence is requested at Suvanto (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-78	Review Reeled the mind: Henry Luce's decline and fall By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Brinkley, Alan; Biography; Luce, Henry Robinson; Pictorial works; Publishers and publishing; The publisher: Henry Luce and his American century (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
78-82	Review World wide web: The myth and reality of the United Nations By John Gray SEE ALSO: Mazower, Mark; No enchanted palace: the end of empire and the ideological origins of the United Nations (Book); United Nations PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Thirds By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi	Jun 1
Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Jun 8
Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Jun 15
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Jun 22
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Jun 29

By Ken Silverstein

“It has been a tremendous honor to have served”: Congressman Gary Miller’s Vietnam Odyssey	10:19 AM Jun 1
The Only Real Questions About the Israeli Attack	10:23 AM Jun 1
Piracy on the High Seas	3:01 PM Jun 1
More on Congressman Miller’s “Service” During Vietnam War	8:36 AM Jun 2
UNESCO for Sale: Dictators allowed to buy their own prizes, for the right price	8:44 AM Jun 2
A Trip Down Memory Lane: U.S. financed 1971 Bolivian coup	3:04 PM Jun 2
UNESCO’s Award for the Worst of the Worst	7:04 AM Jun 3
BP’s Oily Mess: Welcome to the United States of Nigeria	7:06 AM Jun 3
Congressman Gary Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Campaign Business	8:29 AM Jun 3
Bob Woodward and the Iraq War	5:53 AM Jun 4
More on BP’s Oily Mess, in the Gulf and in Nigeria	10:18 AM Jun 4
The Sesame Street Cover-up: Glenn Beck airs floatilla video previously suppressed by all news outlets except none	10:24 AM Jun 4
Dictator Plays Race Card in Seeking His Very Own UNESCO Award	8:22 AM Jun 7
Past Encounter With Future South Carolina Scandal Participants	8:57 AM Jun 7
Jim Messina: Cracks in the “Mr. Fix It” Image	9:25 AM Jun 7
The Gulf Spill: A Drop in the Bucket	11:45 AM Jun 7
Helen Thomas and “Objective Journalism”	7:10 AM Jun 8
BP Execs Promoted Despite Ignoring Safety Problems	7:12 AM Jun 8
Are Voters Angry?	10:53 AM Jun 9
Stop the Presses: Media blowhards fight for Helen Thomas’s chair!	11:19 AM Jun 10
Math Quiz: How many drinks does it take to end up in the wrong bed?	11:21 AM Jun 10
House Initiative on Corruption: Kill the watchdog	11:22 AM Jun 10
Don’t Try Contacting BP’s Wildlife Expert: He’s been dead for five years	12:30 PM Jun 10
Big Tears: Congressman Melancon cries for the Gulf	8:19 AM Jun 11
Twinkies: The raw materials	8:50 AM Jun 11
America’s Challenge: Fighting fools and perverts	5:42 AM Jun 14
Boot Helen Thomas: Howard Kurtz finally sees White House press as being too clubby	10:35 AM Jun 14
Why I (Still) Hate the U.S. Soccer Team	11:03 AM Jun 14
Will UNESCO hop in bed with dictator for $3 million? Obama administration comes out against award	11:12 AM Jun 14
Huffington Post Allows Lobbyist to Take Dictator Out for Spin on its Site	9:18 AM Jun 15
Obama and the Gulf Spill: The president’s role	9:29 AM Jun 15
World Cup Reaction	9:30 AM Jun 15
UNESCO Tables Grotesque Obiang “Prize”	10:08 AM Jun 15
Campaign Fundraisers and Votes: Purely coincidental	6:50 AM Jun 16
Save the Walruses: Oil companies unveil visionary green campaign	6:51 AM Jun 16
What’s The Matter With Arizona? A conversation with Senator Rebecca Rios	6:55 AM Jun 16
Arizona from the Right: A conversation with Senator Ron Gould	11:00 AM Jun 16
U.S. Lobbying Firm’s Kyrgyz Ties	11:01 AM Jun 16
Gusher: Money from oil industry keeps flowing to congress	7:20 AM Jun 18
Room Service, or how Japan’s lobbying for ending commercial whaling ban includes cash, hookers	7:26 AM Jun 18
Why I Hate Landon Donovan	3:08 PM Jun 18
The Oil Spill Winners: As usual, K Street makes a killing	8:16 AM Jun 21
Mea Culpa: Landon Donovan Not Hateable	8:53 AM Jun 21
Offshore: Where the money is	7:30 AM Jun 22
Bloggers in Pajamas or Op-ed Writers in Depends? You choose	7:33 AM Jun 22
The First Commandment: Kill the Grizzly	11:44 AM Jun 22
Laughing Matter? GOP insider alleges hush money paid to former RNC employee	1:35 PM Jun 22
A Victory for Vanilla-Lovers: U.S. advances to second round	1:50 PM Jun 23
Letters on Arizona, Soccer	10:06 AM Jun 24
The American Media Finally Realizes It Sucks	10:07 AM Jun 24
The Real News From Afghanistan	10:10 AM Jun 24
Political Journalism’s “State Secret”	10:14 AM Jun 24
Cry, Baby, Cry	7:38 AM Jun 25
Blogs and Double Standards	7:40 AM Jun 25
Pre- and Post-Game Commentary	9:11 AM Jun 26
The Weigel Affair	7:51 AM Jun 28
So long U.S. Team: You will not be missed	7:55 AM Jun 28
Guns to Somalia: Arms trafficking scheme exposed	7:59 AM Jun 28
From “The More Things Change” File	9:40 AM Jun 28
Best Newspaper Lede of All Time	1:47 PM Jun 28
Washington Post: Now hiring	1:48 PM Jun 28
Nibbling at Reform	9:09 AM Jun 29
Russian Spies and Campaign Finance	9:11 AM Jun 29
The Lowest Form of Life	9:54 AM Jun 29
World Cup: Cream rises to top	7:08 AM Jun 30
BP: Corporate Code and political money don’t mix	7:14 AM Jun 30

By Scott Horton

Not for Profit: Six Questions for Martha Nussbaum	1:25 PM Jun 1
At What Cost Intelligence?	11:54 AM Jun 3
A Dangerous Rogue State	4:12 PM Jun 3
George W. Bush, Torture President	9:35 AM Jun 4
Politics and Justice in Ingushetia	1:45 PM Jun 4
Tagore—Decline of the Complete Man	9:34 AM Jun 5
Tagore—The Angel Child	12:35 AM Jun 6
Bush-era CIA Human Experimentation Program Revealed	9:33 AM Jun 7
Turkey Basting	7:03 PM Jun 8
Rules for Drone Wars: Six Questions for Philip Alston	2:12 PM Jun 9
Thiessen’s Heroes	11:58 AM Jun 10
Dawn Johnsen on the Appointments Dilemma	10:04 AM Jun 11
Genocide Convictions at The Hague	1:25 PM Jun 11
Leibniz—The Radical Origin of Things	6:06 AM Jun 12
Heine/Schumann—Im wunderschönen Monat Mai	6:04 AM Jun 13
Tragedy in Osh	8:29 AM Jun 14
The Saudi Arabia of Lithium	10:05 AM Jun 14
Five New Orleans Policemen Indicted	2:22 PM Jun 14
Mossad Agent Arrested in Poland	6:14 PM Jun 14
Blackwater’s Prince Moving to the Emirates?	12:54 PM Jun 15
The Long Road to Justice for the Victims of “Bloody Sunday”	2:27 PM Jun 15
The Justice Department and the Torture of Maher Arar	11:44 AM Jun 16
DeGaulle in Ankara	1:52 PM Jun 17
Our Century: A Dialogue with Helmut Schmidt and Fritz Stern (I)	4:07 PM Jun 17
Plato—The Gadfly’s Role	3:46 PM Jun 18
Auden—September 1, 1939	3:49 AM Jun 20
Obama, Medvedev and the Crisis in Osh	10:13 AM Jun 21
Rethinking the Afghan Strategy	12:38 PM Jun 25
A Letter from Accra	3:18 PM Jun 25
Pestalozzi—Humanity’s Inner Truth	4:29 PM Jun 25
Heym—War	6:52 AM Jun 27
The Thurgood Marshall Nomination	11:47 AM Jun 29
Siegelman Conviction Vacated by Supreme Court	12:09 PM Jun 29
Patrick Fitzgerald, Torture Prosecutor?	4:33 PM Jun 29
Britain Moves Forward on Torture Probe	3:32 PM Jun 30

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	1:48 PM Jun 3
A Cartoon	11:37 AM Jun 10
A Cartoon	8:24 AM Jun 17
A Cartoon	10:25 AM Jun 25

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The Gulf and Our Oily Campaign-Finance System

By John R. MacArthur

8:51 AM

Jun 16

This Thursday Evening in New York City: Death—a Harper’s Magazine reading	12:07 PM Jun 7
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