How Madoff’s Surviving Son Handles Grief and Scandal

By Stephen Foley in New York Tuesday, 21 December 2010 THE INDEPENDENT UK The fiancée of Bernard Madoff’s surviving son has provided a glimpse of life in the shadow of history’s biggest fraud, revealing how Andrew Madoff has thrown himself into music and new business ventures as a whirlwind of recrimination continues to swirl around […]

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John Burns’ “Ministering Angels” and “Liberators”

In this week’s New Yorker, Peter Maass — who was in Iraq covering the war at the time — examines the iconic, manufactured toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, an event the American media relentlessly exploited in April, 2003, to propagandize citizens into believing that Iraqis were gleeful over the U.S. invasion and […]

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