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Lobbygate's Gatesesnew

What are we to make of the coincident D.C. connections of the lawyer father and the software-titan son?

Seattle Weekly | Rick Anderson | 01-18-2006 | Politics

Tags: corruption, lobbying, Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Bill Gates

Picture Thisnew

James Sturm, co-founder of the nation's first school for cartoon studies, discusses the merits of school and the newfound attention being paid to comics.

The Village Voice | Nick Mamatas | 01-18-2006 | Art

Tags: RAW, the Center for Cartoon Studies, the strannger

The Hummingbird's Great Nephewnew

One of the finest chroniclers of the U.S.-Mexico border discusses his new novel, immigration policy and healing the border.

The Texas Observer | Gregg Barrios | 01-18-2006 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird’s Daughter

Don't Ask, Don't Tellnew

A rising law-professor star's book analyzes the ways we pass.

The Village Voice | Robert Ito | 01-18-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, Kenji Yoshino

Emo Expert in Hipster Playgroundnew

Greenwald's pastiche of emo tropes, dime-store Freud and corny similes adds up to the equivalent of an overly earnest late-night blog post.

The Village Voice | Akiva Gottlieb | 01-18-2006 | Fiction

Tags: Andy Greenwald, Miss Misery

Cheney Plays the Egypt Cardnew

Vice president Cheney is trying to get Egypt involved in nuclear standoff with Iran.

The Village Voice | James Ridgeway | 01-18-2006 | International

Tags: international

My Ancestors' Violencenew

The traumatic effects of lynching reverberate to the present and are examined in two powerful books.

The Texas Observer | Patrick Timmons | 01-18-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Patricia Bernstein, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP, The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, William D. Carrigan

All the News They Forgot to Printnew

This book examines the media's sins of omission, led by the lack of reporting on the Bush administration's slow but sure elimination of open government.

The Texas Observer | Molly Ivins | 01-18-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: media, FOIA, censorship, Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories, Peter Phillips and Project Censored, self-censor