NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY
By Tara Murtha
As the face of junkies continues to shift from unsavory characters scoring in the backrooms to teens nicking OxyContin and Vicodin and Percocet-popping moms, the role of the interventionist has become more proment. Meet Vincent Ceraso.
NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY
By Brian Hickey
The day the bodies were found, Terry Oleson was 60 miles from the Golden Key Motel, a sleazy place where he was forced to flop a few nights each week. Even now, though, he can't escape the cloud of suspicion.
NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY
By Carrie Ann and Dan Eldridge
I'm a 30-year-old, formerly able-bodied professional woman who is now dependent on the government for a “public option. I wouldn’t be in this position if I’d had access to reasonably affordable health care in the first place. But I don't.
NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY
By Mike Newall
It’s been five months since Maurice Ragland testified against the man he says shot him. In doing so, he broke the cardinal rule of the Philadelphia streets—Do Not Snitch. That he survived his wounds is amazing enough, but that he testified is just as amazing.
Oh yeah, this is going to work out great: If the foreign forces are not seen so by Afghans already, they are on the cusp of being regarded as occupiers, with little to show people for their extended presence, fueling wild conspiracies about why they remain here. The feeling is particularly acute in the Pashtun south, but [...]
My conservative collaborator Ben is fond of warning about the unintended consequences of new laws and regulations, and hoo boy, do they have some in California right now: Veterinarians who did not want cities meddling in their business persuaded the state Legislature to bar local governments from banning the practice of declawing cats — beginning in [...]
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