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McCain’s crooked talk on torture
Critics, including a local former army interrogator, say he’s trying to play both sides of the issue
It might surprise some that McCain’s record in opposing torture and the Bush administration’s terror-war approach is more complicated than his comments suggest.
By
IAN DONNIS
| September 18, 2008
Olympian anti-heroes
Sports blotter: Olympic edition
Greetings, Olympic sports fans!
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MATT TAIBBI
| August 08, 2008
Parody flunks out
Political humor is no longer welcome in Academia as administrators choke the life out of parody
Artist Barry Blitt’s brilliant illustration — which sought to satirize the naysayers who portray Obama as a flag-burning, unpatriotic Muslim and his wife as a black-power radical — cut to the core of today’s political paradox.
By
HARVEY SILVERGLATE
| July 30, 2008
William Lemmer: Coming home
The further history of a Vietnam-era informer
This article originally appeared in the July 11, 1978 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By
JEFFREY STEIN
| July 10, 2008
Our superheroes, ourselves
What the current crop of comic-book action movies tells us about America's identity crisis
Is there a breed of person more tenderly optimistic, more winsomely hopeful for the best, more loyal to the possibility of good, than the American summer moviegoer?
By
JAMES PARKER
| July 09, 2008
Senate shuffle
Massachusetts hasn’t had a Senate-seat vacancy in nearly 25 years. Now we may have two. Let the speculation begin.
Don’t count Ted Kennedy out just yet, but the prognosis immediately set minds thinking about the inevitable departure of Kennedy from the US Senate, where he has served since 1962.
By
DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
| August 27, 2008
Our championship season
Brilliant us
This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
By
CLIF GARBODEN
| February 13, 2008
Righting a staggering wrong
It is time for the US Attorney to investigate how and why the Boston police wrongfully convicted Stephan Cowans
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan should launch an investigation into how that department managed to help convict the wrong man in the 1997 shooting of a Boston cop.
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EDITORIAL
| February 06, 2008
The loud business drumbeat
Who really cares about the poor, the sick, the elderly, or the mentally ill? Keep searching.
The majority legislative Dems do not share Baldacci’s enthusiasm for these cuts, but they seem resigned to them.
By
LANCE TAPLEY
| January 30, 2008
Ring of fire
The deadbeat FBI fails to pay its phone bills and jeopardizes its wiretapping program
An ugly squabble between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the nation’s biggest phone companies has, in one nasty blow, recast the image of all the entities involved.
By
HARVEY SILVERGLATE
| January 23, 2008
Torture-tapes template
Bush-administration lawyers could be nailed for their role in destroying evidence in the CIA scandal, thanks to a quiet Connecticut child-porn case
Did the Bush-administration lawyers, and the CIA operatives they advised, commit obstruction of justice by destroying the now-infamous CIA-interrogation videotapes?
By
HARVEY SILVERGLATE
| January 16, 2008
Plunder, pillage, and profit
A provocative new book suggests big business could learn from piracy and youth culture
When Napster, invented by a Northeastern freshman, threw the music industry into chaos in 1999, Steve Jobs didn’t panic. He saw an opportunity.
By
MIKE MILIARD
| January 16, 2008
News from not for nothing
Best of the blog
During his time on Boston’s WBUR, Christopher Lydon’s The Connection had a number of listeners in Rhode Island.
By
IAN DONNIS
| November 28, 2007
Bonds away
Sports blotter: "Barry's indictment" edition
This Barry Bonds thing is going to be a big story, no doubt, but trust me: even bigger news is probably coming.
By
MATT TAIBBI
| November 19, 2007
An unprecedented crime
Mass torture in America. And how to stop it
I have a true ghost story to tell: the story of 35,000 ghosts in America, the largely invisible inmates of our solitary-confinement “supermax” prisons.
By
LANCE TAPLEY
| November 14, 2007
Why Mukasey stinks
Plus, what the Obama endorsement shows about Patrick
The idea that former federal judge Michael Mukasey may soon be confirmed as US attorney general is almost a welcome relief. But it should not be.
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EDITORIAL
| October 25, 2007
Highway robbery
Is Internet populism destined for corporate ruin?
Not long ago, the path by which the recent Justice Department scandal traveled from tidbit to tsunami would have been seen as an exotic trip through an unknown land.
By
DAN KENNEDY
| October 04, 2007
Ouch!
The DEA’s bad-faith war on pain doctors
Things haven’t been going well as of late for Needham-based chronic-pain specialist Dr. Joseph Zolot.
By
HARVEY SILVERGLATE
| September 26, 2007
Buddy Cianci
A candid conversation
Vincent Albert Cianci — called Buddy by friends and foes — is back.
By
JOE VILENO
| September 24, 2007
Brokeback men's room
A curiously Republican story
Once upon a time there was a barbershop quartet known as the Singing Senators.
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EDITORIAL
| September 05, 2007
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