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Thursday
December 17, 2020

“No Choice but to Do It”: Why Women Go to Prison

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

By Justine van der Leun

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	Republicans Will Never Accept the Election Results The media keeps asking when the GOP will acknowledge that Joe Biden won a fair election. It ain’t happening.By Alex Shephard

	The New Language of Forever War-Making The post-9/11 consensus is crumbling, so America’s hawks are inventing fresh rhetoric to justify imperialist disasters.By Jacob Silverman

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	What America Needs Now Is a President Who Will Go Nuclear on the Justice Department It’s looking as if Joe Biden might not follow in the footsteps of his supereffective predecessor. Sad!By Matt Ford

	How The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap Elif Batuman was duped by a source’s fabrications about the country’s rent-a-family industry. What went wrong?By Ryu Spaeth

	Give Joe Biden a Break Sure, some of his Cabinet choices have been puzzling. But what’s most important right now is that Biden feels comfortable with the people in his administration.By Walter Shapiro

	Nicole Krauss’s Difficult Men Her new story collection poses thorny questions and defies her critics.By Timothy Aubry

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