Babylonian Lion, March 1875. Six American soldiers, including a general, were facing court martial over the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, which was…
Caricature of Louis IV, by Thackeray. 1875. China announced that Hong Kong will not be allowed to elect its next leader in 2007, contrary to the city’s Basic Law, which…
The British government declined to prosecute Katharine Gun, the linguist who leaked a United States National Security Agency memo asking British intelligence to spy on United Nations diplomats before the…
Republican operatives were looking high and low for anyone who could remember serving in the National Guard with President George W. Bush between May 1972 and May 1973; one group…
From “The Hell House Outreach Manual,” a 263-page guide to creating a “spiritually based” haunted house, published by the Abundant Life Christian Center (ALCC) in Arvada, Colorado, and sold last…
A report from a Milwaukee abortion clinic, where the crowd outside brandishes the weapons of righteousness and the women inside bear the weight of their choice
From a one-page handout on “herbal abortion” distributed as part of a sex-education class last spring to students, some as young as fourteen, at the Cazadero Academy, a private high…