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McCain’s crooked talk on torture

Critics, including a local former army interrogator, say he’s trying to play both sides of the issue
It might surprise some that McCain’s record in opposing torture and the Bush administration’s terror-war approach is more complicated than his comments suggest.
By IAN DONNIS | September 18, 2008

Privacy invasion

Politics and other mistakes
Let’s talk about Susan Collins’s sex life.
By AL DIAMON | August 27, 2008

Let it all hang out

Underbear at the Alley
It’s hard to feel too threatened by an IT administrator in SpongeBob boxers sipping a Long Island iced tea through a stir straw.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | July 08, 2008

The kids in the hall

Teen pregnancies are up. Can on-campus student-parent services be far behind?
Someone is going to get pregnant.
By KARA BASKIN | January 22, 2008

Crank that, techie

Cool jerks
In the summer of 2006, DeAndre Way, then 16, combated summer boredom in Batesville, Mississippi, by writing songs with Fruity Loops digital-audio software.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 12, 2007

Political cartoons

The 20 Best Animated Politicians in Cartoon History
Among its hordes of firsts, The Simpsons helped transplant politicians from the cartoon funny pages to our television sets.
By DAVID MASHBURN | July 26, 2007

Father knows least

Neal Pollack raises a young ’un
Say what you will about not judging a book by its cover, the bill-ringed rubber ducky adorning the jacket of Neal Pollack’s Alternadad leaves little waddle room.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | January 16, 2007

Bored? Not with these games

Role-playing, railroad-building, and good ol’ spelling
One way of channeling family competitiveness at holiday gatherings is to bring out a board game and gently coerce people to play it.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | December 12, 2006

Print the legend

Providence’s ‘Wunderground’ and MassArt’s ‘Crafty’
This exhibit offers an eye-popping, floor-to-ceiling survey of practically every poster produced to advertise under-the-radar Providence shenanigans from 1995 to 2005. Slideshow: Images from Wunderground
By GREG COOK | September 28, 2006

In the footsteps of the devil

Why did Mohammed Atta choose to spend his last night on Earth in my hometown?
On top of everything else that day, there was this.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 11, 2006

Game, show

Playing TV’s biggest hits
We’re only a few hands in and already I’ve gotten Al Swearengen mad. You're with me, mousepad: Games we'd like to see. By Mitch Krpata
By MITCH KRPATA | September 05, 2006

Righteous brother

The career of Brian Doyle-Murray
We like to imagine that somewhere there exists an Elks-Club-like organization of the slightly-less-famous brothers of celebrities.
By RYAN STEWART | August 18, 2006

Queer superheroes challenge the far right

Comic Culture
It’s official: Batwoman is coming back — as a lesbian.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | June 28, 2006

Best left alone

Politics and other mistakes
Wshould offer a tax break to a group described by an authoritative source as “generally more intelligent, better looking, imaginative, and multi-talented” than the majority of the population: Left-handed people.
By AL DIAMON | February 22, 2006

Made to order

MTV and Frank Pino turn a New Hampshire teen into a rock star
For a 16-year-old “recovering band geek” who has just had, by her own description, the best night of her entire life, Alexa Fay is slightly hysterical.
By ELISABETH DONNELLY | January 23, 2006

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