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Essay — From the April 2013 issue
How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives
Easy chair — From the November 2012 issue
Readings — From the October 2012 issue
Article — From the September 2012 issue
Revelations from Ronald Reagan’s FBI file
Photography — From the April 2012 issue
Letter from Lima — From the February 2012 issue
Election night in Peru’s largest prison
Readings — From the November 2011 issue
Article — From the October 2011 issue
The middle-class rebels behind Libya’s revolution
illustration — From the October 2011 issue
Readings — From the June 2011 issue
Readings — From the January 2011 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.