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Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

President George W. Bush called for $145 billion in tax cuts, describing the measures as a “shot in the arm” for the U.S. economy, which caused stock values to plunge…

Imploding the Boardwalk

Art by Lisa Sanditz,

Weekly Review

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 In Tal Afar, Iraq, a truck bomb killed 152 people, making it the deadliest…

Cleaving Las Vegas

Edited by Sam Shad,

From a November 2 interview with Oscar Goodman, the Democratic mayor of Las Vegas, which aired on Nevada NewsMakers, a television show hosted by Sam Shad. oscar goodman: The prisons…