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DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION: A Curator's Trial Ends, by Hugh Eakin
“It is a great reprieve for me,” Marion True says. As for the Getty Museum, her former employer, “I have nothing but the greatest contempt”…

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Confounding Fathers

by Sean Wilentz
The Tea Party’s Cold War roots.

OLD SPORT

MINERS AND RANGERS

by Roger Angell
Chileans head home; Texas hosts the Yankees.

Quiz

Stork Studies

by Samantha Henig
Making babies in song and on screen.
ILLUSTRATION: LORENZO MATTOTTI
AUDIO: Tijuana Brass, with William Finnegan
A new police chief is taking on the drug cartels and corruption. But do his victories rely on torture?

THE WAYWARD PRESS

The Gossip Merchant

by Ben McGrath
Is Gawker’s Nick Denton a soulless Machiavellian?

LETTER FROM CHINA

A HUNDRED MILLION SEEDS

by Evan Osnos
Ai Weiwei’s new installation at the Tate.

MULTIMEDIA PORTFOLIO

Exiled from Burma

by Platon
Monks, journalists, and other brave refugees.

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THE THEATRE

ART

DANCE

THE SKY LINE

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