Report — From the November 2012 issue
How to Rig an Election
The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red
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Report — From the November 2012 issue
The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red
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Election night in Peru’s largest prison
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Running for president on less than $2,000 a day
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Rudolph Giuliani and the politics of personality
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On the campaign trail in post-Bush America
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The G.O.P.’s plan to militarize our culture
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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.