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A badly botched lethal injection has put a slew of capital punishment cases on hold. The Daily Beast's Ben Crair reports on how physicians could help ...
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A distinct political species has rushed the microphones to rally around admitted rapist Roman Polanski. Ben Crair on how reviving a cartoonish ...
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Katherine Heigl’s new movie, The Ugly Truth, shows how Cyrano de Bergerac, the poetic romantic hero, has been turned into a lecherous player.
The balcony scene ...
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Don’t stick the philandering South Carolina governor in the same lot with John Ensign, David Vitter, and other GOP scandal victims. ...
One way to measure the approach of the new year is to count the Holocaust films at your local multiplex. The holidays arrive just as studios begin wooing academy members with serious dramas, and there's nothing more serious than genocide. Over the ...
From BEN CRAIR,
Slate,
29 Dec 2008
The Republican National Convention, which continues tonight in St. Paul, Minn., was scheduled to begin Monday, the last day of the Minnesota State Fair. In this 2006 "Dispatch," Ben Crair took stock of the fair grounds, including the swine barns, the ...
From BEN CRAIR,
Slate,
3 Sep 2008
At some point in the next four months, Spain will likely become the first country to extend legal rights to great apes, thereby protecting gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos from abuse, torture, and unnatural death. The measure will, in ...
From BEN CRAIR,
Slate,
29 Jul 2008
It's not in poor taste because of the intentions which are purely of the type which are used, as the saying goes, to pave the road to Hell. It is in poor taste because of the conception and execution of the artist and the judgement of the editor. It ...
I caught up with the Reverend Al Sharpton this morning after he spoke at an event on education reform. I asked him afterwards how he would push education reform as a civil-rights issue while countering the opposition of traditionally liberal actors ...
In a speech in West
Virginia earlier this week, Barack Obama attacked
John McCain for opposing Jim Webb's "21st Century G.I. Bill," the
original 1946 version of which paid full tuition and living costs for veterans
enrolling in college. As this helpful ...
