World Trade Center

Trent Franks Makes List of the 10 Weirdest Members of Congress

Tater Tot: Ben Quayle's Smart. He Can Spell Potato. But He Wouldn't Be a GOP Congressional Nominee Without the Name Daddy Dan Made Infamous

Lebanon Takes You Inside an Israeli Tank and the Reality of War

Shocking Pink: Arpaio's Detention Officers Unnecessarily Terrorized a Psychotic Inmate Because He Resisted Wearing Pink Underwear

School of Hard Knocks: Three-Sport Gamer Mike Nixon’s Tried It All, But Can the Whip-Smart ASU Defensive Star Make It to the NFL?

Guantánamo’s Final Days: America Prepares to Shutter the Infamous Prison Camp, and Jihad Looms

Gray Development Sues CityNorth Developer for $100 Million; Hires Grand-an-Hour Attorney

                   VS. The Thomas J. Klutznick company recently found out that a planned $100 million subsidy from the city of Phoenix for the highly touted CityNorth project had been ni ... More >>

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial may be more fascinating than the case itself

Meltdown

The Phoenix branch of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is Exhibit A of this country's failed border policies

War & Peacenik

Ever heard of a West Point graduate seeking a conscientious objector discharge? Meet Major Ann Marie Tate

Storm Troopers

Black people calling Phoenix the promised land? The Katrina evacuees in the Valley haven't been getting out enough

World Leaders Pretend

U2's self-invented legacy is a figment of Bono's imagination

Leonard Cohen

Dear Heather
(Sony)

Back to the Future

The past is catching up with the Vietnamese son of a black American soldier

Mission: Impossible

The Arizona Legislature may prove to be too much for ASU's unsinkable Michael Crow

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but comes off very savage

Not the Usual Suspects

The crowd at Patriots Square Park resembled that at a Stones concert

Herding People

When undocumented workers gather to wait for jobs at the city's first day-labor center, complaints about them should subside. But don't count on it.

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about in search of fear itself

History Lessons

Yavapai children used to call themselves "dumb Indians." Now they know better.

Escape From Tempe

Assignment to Afghanistan is just another stop for local journalist

Red Alert

Blues expatriate Louisiana Red finds a home, and an audience, in Germany

Jailhouse Shock

Letters from the week of March 28, 2002

Sunken Treasure

Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot might have been the best album of last year. Here's why you haven't heard it yet.

A Path Divided

Years ago, a dispute over money and power split the Valley's Sikh community. Then one of their own was gunned down after September 11. Will the bloodshed be enough to put them back on the same path?

Traveling Companions

Gray whales are leading tourists, conservationists and business operators on a rocky voyage toward economic and environmental salvation.

Peacenik Nazis

Radical right capitalizes on September 11 fears

W.O.M.B. With a View

With their wildly eclectic, kinetic music, the Warriors of Make Believe will make your paradigms pop

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

Arabian Knight

Jack Shaheen crusades against cinema's depiction of Reel Bad Arabs

A First-Class Ticket to Palookaville

Whimsical farce walks the walk down mean street

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