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“Showzen” people
Matt Haber
MTV2's "Wonder Showzen" aims to do for childhood innocence what "Chappelle's Show" did for racial sensitivity. Just don't call it "'Sesame Street' on acid."
The wrong man
Michael Scherer
A week after the New York Times identified a human rights advocate as the iconic hooded figure at Abu Ghraib, the paper admits it made a mistake.
In the Twilight Zone
Orville Schell
In Part 2 of his report on the press in Baghdad, Orville Schell attends a pathetic "party" at Fox News and endures surreal Bush spin in the Green Zone.
Putting out for women
Rebecca Traister
Martha Stewart played nice at this year's glittery, bipartisan Women's Campaign Fund benefit -- but Al Franken couldn't resist tormenting the GOP.
SXSW starts to swing
Andrew O'Hehir
The festival premieres films about Al Franken, the Pixies and the music biz. Plus: Did Andy Dick really hump an audience member's head?
“Dave Chappelle’s Block Party”
Stephanie Zacharek
Forget the red-state, blue-state divide. In Chappelle's world, there's only one America, and it's big enough to include everybody.
Beyond the Multiplex
Andrew O'Hehir
A talk with the director of an Oscar favorite. Plus: Arty Mexican porn and a quirky movie about an eccentric family starring ... Will Ferrell.
Missing school in the Big Easy
Michelle Goldberg
As kids in New Orleans are turned away from filled schools, the city gambles its future on charter schools.
Right-wing party animals
Michael Scherer
At this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, Boone, Cheney, Coulter and other luminaries of the far right gathered to glory in their victories over liberal America.
In search of answers
Tim Grieve
Where's the bounce? Who's in Cheney's sights? And what was Michael Steele thinking?
King’s lost dream
Charles Taylor
The final volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial biography shows how Martin Luther King Jr. reached out to his enemies. His example should shame the shrill partisans on both sides of our poisonous cultural divide.
Should I give up on having a life in the theater?
Cary Tennis
I've let go of my acting career, but it won't let go of me.
A marriage cemented by terror
Nathan Guttman
Bush and Sharon's strong relationship was based on mutual self-interest -- and a shared good-and-evil ideology.
“Fidelity is a personality trait”
Ayelet Waldman
In an excerpt from Ayelet Waldman's new novel, sparks fly between heroine Emilia Greenleaf and her older, married lover.
The bin Laden book club
Michael Scherer
How the world's most notorious terrorist just launched an obscure left-wing American author into bestseller stardom.
I’m the academic wife, jealous and insecure
Cary Tennis
I'm regarded as inferior by my husband's admirers. I'm afraid I'll lose him to a brilliant and beautiful student.
Smuggler’s blues
Oliver Broudy
Before becoming a writer, Richard Stratton ran hash from the Middle East, making money hand over fist and living off adrenaline. Until he got caught.
We shall overcome … liberals
Michelle Goldberg
At a black church in Philadelphia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece joined Jerry Falwell and Rick Santorum to denounce critics of Samuel Alito.
Farewell from Asbury Park, N.J.
Rebecca Traister
In 1968, a skinny teenager named Bruce Springsteen started jamming at an all-ages club on the Jersey Shore. Now, as the Upstage faces demolition, fans remember better days.
Christmas past
Ann Patchett
My parents divorced and we moved across the country. My sister told me Santa was a fake, and a plague of mice destroyed our tree. No wonder I longed to return to sunny California.
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