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Sessions Is Poised to Make It Vastly Harder for Asylum-Seekers to Get Out of Detention

A new move could allow him to prevent tens of thousands of migrants from getting out of detention on bond.

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The “Iron Stache” congressional candidate’s own brother stars in a spot painting him as an anti-cop criminal.

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September/October 2018 Issue

The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
September 7, 2018

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Bruce Jackson

Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm

“Just about everyone carrying a gun was a convict.”

Photographs by Bruce Jackson