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OJ Simpson
August 23, 2017
Jeet Heer
Alan Dershowitz is on track to be the most notorious defense attorney in history.
May 26, 2016
Sarah Weinman
O.J.: Made in America: How Do You Like Him Now?
The new documentary shows how O.J. Simpson became whatever you wanted him to be—narcissist, athlete, hero, or murderer.
April 6, 2016
Sarah Marshall
The Afterlife of O.J. Simpson
The 1995 acquittal was merely the beginning of an onslaught of media interest that would define the case, and its players, for decades.
March 4, 2016
Adam Peck
Is the LAPD in possession of the murder weapon from the O.J. Simpson trial?
February 1, 2016
MagazineSarah Marshall
The People vs. O.J. Simpson Relives a Media Sensation
The circus is still the spectacle, but Nicole Brown Simpson remains missing from the proceedings.
July 16, 2013
Laura Bennett
Why the Zimmerman Juror's Memoir Was Doomed From the Start
October 26, 2012
Margo Howard
Scenes From a Southern Gothic Murder Trial
April 17, 2012
John McWhorter
The Case for Televising the Trayvon Martin Trial: America Needs a Re-Do of the O.J. Case
August 12, 2011
Walter Shapiro
How Mitt Romney Outlived His Greatest Weakness
July 7, 2011
Paul Campos
DSK and Casey Anthony: The American Justice System at Its Best
May 26, 2011
Paul Berman
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Shipwreck
August 2, 2009
John McWhorter
And We Have Learned -- What? The Real Lesson After The Beer
July 24, 2009
The New Republic Staff
Henry Louis Gates Jr. On O.j., Reconsidered
March 20, 2008
Paul Beatty
Cool We Can Believe In
How Obama is like Jackie Robinson, (early) Al Pacino, and the Fonz, or: Why Geraldine Ferraro is so wrong.
June 24, 2002
Eric Arnesen
A Paler Shade of White
November 19, 2001
Jeffrey Rosen
A Room With a View
January 31, 2000
Jeffrey Rosen
Hyperactive
December 9, 1996
Jeffrey Rosen
The Bloods and the Crits
October 14, 1996
Michael Lewis
The Quarterback
April 25, 1995
Mark Gerson
Race, O.J., and My Kids
An urban New Jersey high school teacher's account from 1995.

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