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Male Practice

From a conversation on Facebook that was published in a January opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The court suspended Winston Sitton from practicing law for four years for making…

The Truce

by Daniel Castro,

How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador

Facing the Furies

by Rebecca Solnit,

In 1979, a catchy Kenny Rogers song called “Coward of the County” made it to the top of the country charts. It’s about a man named Tommy, whose father, a…

Silicon Ally

by Richard Rodriguez,

From an interview with Richard Rodriguez published in the Spring 2014 issue of Boom: A Journal of California. Rodriguez is the author, most recently, of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, excerpted…

Portrait of a Township

by Justine van der Leun,

Former militants take on the post-apartheid struggle

Hail to the thief

by Harper’s Staff,

Calderón’s war

by Cecilia Ballí,

The gruesome legacy of Mexico's antidrug campaign

Los malos

Translated by David Noriega,

Smell is other people

by Tina DiCarlo,

Battling the hard man

by Benjamin DeMott,

Notes on addiction to the pornography of violence

Weekly Review

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 Two hundred fifteen people were killed in a massive bombing and mortar attack on…