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- Cover Story
Don’t Tread on Me
After years of budget-breaking wars, the Pentagon has been ordered to cut the fat.
- FEATURES
All the Right Moves
The DeVos family used its Amway fortune to bust Michigan’s mighty unions. Now it’s taking the sales pitch nationwide.
“It Was Kind of Like Slavery”
Five men return to a reform school full of unmarked graves and dark memories.
The Audacity of Soap
Who says you can’t run a profitable company and get busted planting hemp on the DEA’s front lawn?
Made in Hell
Meet the girl who thought she was getting married and made your T-shirt instead.
The Creative Spirit
Robert Davidson’s groundbreaking art aims to rejuvenate the once-mighty Haida culture.
- OutFront
Electric Shadyland
Spawn of Enron: inside the retail electricity game
To Have and to Hold
Kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan
Offensive Fouls
From the Zulu Cannibal Giants to the Washington [Redacted]
Let’s Roll
Spending big green at the latrine
The Very Angry Caterpillar
Rush Limbaugh. Glenn Beck. For kids.
Sue First, Ask Questions Later
The gun lobby opens up on small towns.
Legal Crossfire
Gun laws one year after Sandy Hook
- MIXED MEDIA
“Oh My God! No, Jessica, no!”
Jessica Williams’ big Daily Show break
Box Set
Rock and roll, caught on camera
Super Good, Super True
Novelist Gary Shteyngart tells his own super sad story.
- FOOD + HEALTH
Does Your Germophobia Breed Superbugs?
How clean hands can be the devil’s playground
The Demi-Glace Ceiling
A woman’s place is in the (high-end) kitchen
Contributors
At age 10, Tim Bower (“Electric Shadyland“) won a three-speed bike in a hotdog maker’s logo contest.
A major Russian newspaper recently—and incorrectly—reported that 1 Hannah Levintova (“Sue First, Ask Questions Later“) has fired an automatic rifle.
2 Dave Gilson is not ashamed to admit that toilet paper was one of the very first things he searched for in a 4,500-row spreadsheet of Pentagon contracts (“Don’t Tread on Me“); the illustration is by 3 Eddie Guy, who also blinged up the cover image.
4 Nina Berman thanks Antoinette Harrell, who researches involuntary servitude in the post-Civil War South, for introducing her to Dozier School alumni (“‘It Was Kind of Like Slavery’“).
Dana Liebelson investigated India’s garment factories (“Made in Hell“) with support from the International Center for Journalists.
5 Mark Follman’s travels through British Columbia have spanned from hiking in the Haida Nation’s island homeland (“The Creative Spirit“) to reporting at a Vancouver heroin clinic; when he’s not roaming the world taking pictures of people who live without electricity, Peter DiCampo lives in Seattle.
6 Lauren Williams—no relation to the Daily Show star (“‘Oh My God! No, Jessica, No!’“)—won hearts as Veruca Salt in a school production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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