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May 2009

Issue 15 Editors' Note

 By Last Exit Staff
 

Hidden in Plain Sight

[published: May 20, 2009]

Blood Money

 By Jorge Luis Sierra
 

The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is a brutally violent machete-wielding gang that is murdering, robbing, raping and extorting money from the Latino communities in Houston where they live.

[published: May 20, 2009]

Thomas Paine's America

 By James S Kaplan
 

The author of Common Sense and architect of American democracy died penniless in a Greenwich Village boarding house 200 years ago next month. Historian James S. Kaplan traces his forgotten legacy.

[published: May 20, 2009]

Forgotten Foods

 By Anne Dailey
 

The only way to save some nearly lost breeds of livestock and strains of seed may be to eat them.

[published: May 20, 2009]

Mara Altman

 By Keach Hagey
 

Mara Altman was brave and uninhibited when it came to her journalism for the Village Voice, New York Times and New York magazine. But when it came to her own body, she had issues. So she went on a quest to get to the bottom of them, hilariously retold in her new book, Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman’s Quest for an Orgasm.

[published: May 20, 2009]

Train Gangs

 By Mary Cuddehe
 

The latest victim of the Mexican drug wars may turn out to be Union Pacific, the U.S.’s largest railroad operator, which is being sued by the Justice Department for allegedly failing to keep drugs off its freights.

[published: May 20, 2009]

Time is on my Side

 By Cynthia Daignault
 

In light of a new retrospective of late-life Picasso works, ruminations on sex, painting, rock n roll, and the circle of dancing naked hippies that is life.

[published: May 20, 2009]