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	Illustration [Cover art] By James McMullan SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Civil-military relations; Civil supremacy over the military; Patraeus, David Howell; Executive power; Military leadership—Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On The confessions of Glenn Beck, from March 2011: Letter By Philip Mash On Homeless in Sacramento, from March 2011: Letter By Mark E. Merin Letter By Pamela Kliment, Julie Law, Michele Marchand, and Nate Martin Letter By “Anonymous” PDF IMAGES
9-13	Easy chair/Article Scenes from the class war in Wisconsin By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Career as Wisconsin governor; Career as Wisconsin state senator; Collective bargaining; Demonstrations; Grothman, Glenn; Government employees; Walker, Scott; Tea Party movement PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-22	Readings/Article This is not an Islamic revolution By Jonathan Derbyshire (Trans.) and Olivier Roy SEE ALSO: Africa, North; Democracy; Egypt; Islam and politics; Islam and secularism; Islamic countries; Islamic fundamentalism; Jam`iyat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Egypt); The Middle East; 1979-; Qaida (Organization); Tunisia; Turkey PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo Chongqing I, Chongqing municipality By Nadav Kander (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bridges; Buildings, structures, etc. PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Yibin I (Bathers), Sichuan Province By Nadav Kander (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baths, Sea PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Fiction Chicken Winchell By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Evidence of absence By Donald Rumsfeld SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Correspondence; Rumsfeld, Donald; Bush, George W.; 2001-2009; Officials and employees; Quotations, maxims, etc.; United States. Department of Defense PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Flock in awe SEE ALSO: Audubon societies; Birds; Environmental aspects; Migration; Orientation; Periodicals; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Wonderings By David Rathman SEE ALSO: Cowboys PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hard time By Alexander Berkman SEE ALSO: Anarchists; Masturbation; Periodicals; Prison discipline; Prisoners; Prisoners' writings, American; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Jeer review SEE ALSO: Periodicals PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Birther pains SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as Tennessee state senator; Election law; Eligibility for office; Beavers, Mae; Views on Obama's eligibility for office PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Sr. Silva goes to Brasília By Julia Powers (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Brazil; Clowns; Elections; Eligibility for office—Humor; Silva, Francisco PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction An accidental place By Rahul Bhattacharya PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Return of the spirits By Julien Sinzogan SEE ALSO: Spirits PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Woodlanders By Paul Nugent PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Blunt trauma By James Jeremiah Shea SEE ALSO: Bear attacks; Hopkins, Brock; Grizzly bear; Marijuana; Montana; Trials, litigation, etc.; Workers' compensation PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration Gorge By Amy Cutler SEE ALSO: Gorges PDF IMAGES
34-40	Article Owned by the army: Has the president lost control of his generals? By Jonathan Stevenson SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; Afghan War, 2001-; Obama, Barack; Civil-military relations; Civil supremacy over the military; Patraeus, David Howell; MacArthur, Douglas; Executive power; McClellan, George Brinton; Truman, Harry S.; Military doctrine; Military leadership; National security; Press and politics; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
41-50	Article Why I'm a pacifist: The dangerous myth of the Good War By Nicholson Baker SEE ALSO: Cronbach, Abraham; Kaufman, Abraham; Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron; Day, Dorothy; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hughan, Jessie Wallace; Pacifism; Peace; Brittain, Vera; Views on pacifism PDF IMAGES
51-54	Collection Into the shadow of these trees By Lisa Elmaleh (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo Palm skeleton By Lisa Elmaleh (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Everglades; Everglades (Fla.); Palms PDF IMAGES
52-53	Photo Water trail By Lisa Elmaleh (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Everglades (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
54	Photo Buttonwood tree By Lisa Elmaleh (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Everglades; Everglades (Fla.) PDF IMAGES Photo Mangrove (reaching) By Lisa Elmaleh (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Everglades; Everglades (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
55-62	Article Underachievers please try harder: Indie rock reunites on the English coast By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Alternative rock music; Rock music PDF IMAGES
63-66	Fiction The ice worm By Lore Groszmann Segal PDF IMAGES
67-70	New books/Review New books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: Levé, Edouard; Stamm, Peter; Seven years (Book); Suicide (Book) PDF IMAGES
71-77	Review Speak, malady: An autobiography of cancer By Adam Baer SEE ALSO: Cancer; Mukherjee, Siddhartha; The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer (Book) PDF IMAGES
77-82	Review Lonely island: Mike Leigh's intimate cinema By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Another year (Motion picture); Leigh, Mike; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Beehive By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	May 31
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Weekly Review By J. Gabriel Boylan	May 23
Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	May 3
Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi	May 10
Weekly Review By Anthony Lydgate	May 17

By Scott Horton

Congress and the War Powers	11:23 AM May 19
No Blood, No Foul	10:10 AM May 24
The Bin Laden Photos	11:00 AM May 10
Pakistan: A Hard Country—Six Questions for Anatol Lieven	12:04 PM May 16
The DOJ and the Ensign-Hampton Affair	1:41 PM May 13

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	5:08 AM May 27
A Cartoon	8:36 AM May 13
A Cartoon	5:37 PM May 20
A Cartoon	8:40 AM May 6

Head-examining After the Osama bin Laden Killing

By John R. MacArthur

9:45 AM

May 19

The Guantánamo “Suicides”: Winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting	11:18 AM May 10
American Lucifer: The tormenting face of Osama bin Laden	9:00 AM May 4
On Books and the Middle East Uprisings	10:12 AM May 3
Petraeus: Kicked Upstairs or Simply Unleashed? By Jonathan Stevenson	10:41 AM May 3

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