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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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Message from a Bomber

Michael Kaplan | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber, Purposelessness, Industrial Society, Montana, Terrorism, Nature, Western States, Florence, Colorado, Denver News
Michael Kaplan

Ted Kaczynski will spend the rest of his life in the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Some admirers have cast him as an eco-anarchist, fighting to protect nature. This seems a romantic fiction.

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World's Dumbest Talking Point on Gitmo Gets Traction

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Omar Abdel-Rahman, Terry Nichols, Terrorists, Blind Sheikh, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Ted Kaczynski, Democrats, Gitmo, Supermax, Unabomber, World Trade Center Bombers, Senate, Fear Mongering, Barack Obama, Ramzi-Yousef, Justice, Olympic Park Bomber, Oklahoma City Bomber, Eric Rudolph, Republicans, What-Do-to-With-Gitmo-Prisoners, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The minute Ted Kaczynski makes a run for it out of the Supermax in Colorado is the minute I'll agree that it's unsafe to bring the Gitmo detainees to the US.

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Pennsylvania Avenue: Take 2

Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Newseum, Purple Inauguration Tickets, Inauguration, Journalists, White House, Newspapers, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Donald Brasco, Timothy McVeigh, Washington DC, Media, Journalism, Tim Russert, Unabomber, Obama White House, Museums, Berlin Wall, Frederick Douglass, Twin Towers, Patty Hearst, Media News
Mary Lou Song

I almost had to remind myself to breathe inside the Newseum. There was Patty Hearst's gun and jacket. Donald Brasco's watch and Amex Card. A press pass to Timothy McVeigh's execution.

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Local Pride and Supermax

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison, Immigration Debate, Illegal Immigrants, Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Supermax, Unabomber, Criminal Justice System, Crime, Criminal Justice, Prisons, Ted Kaczynski, Richard Reid, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

The list of prisoners who have been or are presently at Supermax is quite distinguished as prison rosters go; it includes Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," and Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber."

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Palin Offers Thankfulnesses

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Unabomber, Bill Ayres, Ted Stevens, Andy Borowitz, Piper Palin, Katie Couric, Sarah Palin, Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Thanksgiving Commentary, Thanksgiving, Politics News
Andy Borowitz

Sarah's first thankfulness was "I'm thankful for this turkey, and also too for the metal funnel thingy that cut the turkey's head clean off while it was flapping its wings trying to get out and all. That was fun."

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