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Report — From the November 2013 issue

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself

Going undercover with a cult infiltrator

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Essay — From the September 2013 issue

The Devil’s Bait

Symptoms, signs, and the riddle of Morgellons

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Folio — From the July 2013 issue

Blood Spore

Of murder and mushrooms

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Article — From the October 2012 issue

Contest of Words

High school debate and the demise of public speech

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Portfolio — From the September 2012 issue

The Water of My Land

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Article — From the July 2012 issue

Citizen Walmart

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

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Article — From the July 2012 issue

Broken Heartland

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

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Article — From the May 2012 issue

Byzantium

Their ears were uncircumcised

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Fiction — From the April 2012 issue

Train

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Letter from Lima — From the February 2012 issue

All Politics Is Local

Election night in Peru’s largest prison

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Article — From the December 2011 issue

The Accidental Universe

Science’s crisis of faith

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Article — From the February 2011 issue

Tiny Little Laws

A plague of sexual violence in Indian country

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Article — From the September 2010 issue

Straight Man’s Burden

The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions

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Article — From the August 2010 issue

Happiness Is a Worn Gun

My concealed weapon and me

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Article — From the July 2010 issue

Tea Party in the Sonora

For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

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Story — From the January 2010 issue

My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain

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Article — From the December 2009 issue

The Master of Spin Boldak

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police

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Article — From the October 2009 issue

Disaster Aversion

The quest to control hurricanes

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Article — From the February 2009 issue

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

A forensic investigation

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Fiction — From the December 2008 issue

White-Bread Jesus

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Article — From the December 2008 issue

Mandela’s Smile

Notes on South Africa

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Article — From the October 2008 issue

Bleak Houses

Digging through the ruins of the mortgage crisis

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Article — From the May 2008 issue

Faustian Economics

Hell hath no limits

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Article — From the April 2008 issue

Contagious Cancer

The evolution of a killer

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Article — From the February 2008 issue

Staying Awake

Notes on the alleged decline of reading

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Article — From the July 2007 issue

Detroit Arcadia

Exploring the post-American landscape

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Article — From the May 2007 issue

Manufacturing Depression

A journey into the economy of melancholy

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Article — From the February 2007 issue

The Ecstasy of Influence

A plagiarism

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Article — From the January 2007 issue

Moby-Duck

Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood

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Article — From the October 2002 issue

The Road to Babylon

Searching for targets in Iraq

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Article — From the November 1998 issue

The Radioactive Boy Scout

When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor

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Article — From the June 1998 issue

Scent of a Woman’s Ink

Are women writers really inferior?

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Report — From the September 1991 issue

Written in the Big Wind

Hurricanes spell doom for coastal development

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The fourth estate — From the August 1982 issue

The Tedium Twins

Tonight: Are there two sides to every question? Back to you, Jim.

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Article — From the April 1978 issue

Young Minds at Play

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Article — From the April 1971 issue

The Old Man

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Article — From the November 1964 issue

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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Article — From the October 1959 issue

The Decline of Book Reviewing

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Article — From the September 1958 issue

The Coming Ice Age

A true scientific detective story

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Article — From the December 1943 issue

The Master of the Murder Castle

A classic of Chicago crime

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Article — From the March 1933 issue

What the Young Man Should Know

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Article — From the October 1932 issue

In Praise of Idleness

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Article — From the December 1920 issue

Two Christmas Mornings of the Great War

Personal accounts of the Christmas frontline truces

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Fiction — From the October 1851 issue

The Town-Ho’s Story

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