The Gray Lady Wakes?

The Must-Do List:

• Restore Habeas Corpus


• Stop Illegal Spying


• Ban Torture, Really


• Close the C.I.A. Prisons


• Account for ‘Ghost Prisoners’


• Ban Extraordinary Rendition


• Tighten the Definition of Combatant


• Screen Prisoners Fairly and Effectively


• Ban Tainted Evidence


• Ban Secret Evidence


• Better Define ‘Classified’ Evidence


• Respect the Right to Counsel

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Darwin’s God

Darwin’s God
By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on the wall of his bedroom in Baltimore. “God exists,” he wrote in black and orange paint, “or if he doesn’t, we’re in trouble.” Atran has been struggling with questions about religion ever since — why he himself no longer believes in God and why so many other people, everywhere in the world, apparently do. More

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