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Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Benjamin Wallace-Wells is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Posted inMagazine, September 2003
Bush’s War On Cops
Welcome back to the ’80s. Thanks to White House policy, police departments are understaffed, cops are overwhelmed, murders are up, and killers are getting away.
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Headhunting for Michael Powell
All of this inspired a good deal of snark among the Washington media. In the tightly controlled Washington of George W. Bush, where a burnt piece of melba toast would stand a good chance of getting a federal judgeship if Karl Rove willed it, managing to win only 21 Republican votes for a measure with […]
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The Agony of Ecstasy
How a suburban party diversion is becoming a dangerous street drug.
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Mourning Has Broken
The President’s muted remembrance could not have been more different from the way he, and the rest of the country, had commemorated the attacks the year before. On September 11, 2002, the president had taken a day-long tour around the Northeast, stopping for ceremonies at each disaster site: In the morning he visited Ground Zero, […]
