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    Former prisoner in Arizona tells of gang violence, overflowing toilets, food green with mould. And a horrendous anecdote about an asthmatic cellmate and a cockroach

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    Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair

    Assassinatory, highly readable profile of right-wing heroine, portrayed throughout as mean, angry, mendacious, aggressive, cynical, borderline-unbalanced. And a bad mother

  • White Fright

    Christopher Hitchens | Slate

    Glenn Beck channels anxiety among many white Americans that non-whites will soon outnumber them. Claims that Obama is Muslim, and foreign-born, are coded expressions of racial fear

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    Jim Rankin | Star

    What would happen if, instead of spare change, you handed a homeless person the means to shop for what they wanted? Toronto reporter buys pre-paid cards and finds out

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