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No Joe! [Letter from Washington] No Joe!
Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy
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March 2019
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An Unprecedented Twist [Satire] An Unprecedented Twist

A plan for supplementary gruel must be rejected

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Not in My Backyard [Postcard] Not in My Backyard

Amid Berlin’s affordable housing shortage, urban gardens have been sowing unrest

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An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion
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Spain’s answer to Knausgaard arrives in English

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Stable, a painting by Derek Fordjour

Stable

Stable, a painting by Derek Fordjour, whose work is on view this week at Night Gallery, in Los Angeles.
Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Cedar Moon and Root Moon, resin works by Mayme Kratz, whose work is on view this week at Lisa Sette Gallery, in Phoenix.

Cedar Moon and Root Moon

Cedar Moon and Root Moon, resin works by Mayme Kratz, whose work is on view this week at Lisa Sette Gallery, in Phoenix.
Courtesy the artist and Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
Sally Gall Julie Saul Migration

“Migration”

Migration, a photograph by Sally Gall, whose work is on view this week at Julie Saul Gallery, in New York City.
Courtesy the artist and Julie Saul Gallery, New York City
Leaving the Sun and Running Towards the Sun II

Leaving the Sun and Running Towards the Sun II

Leaving the SunandRunning Towards the Sun II,paintings byJohn Krner, whose work is on view this week at Victoria MiroGallery, in London.
Courtesy the artist and Victoria MiroGallery, London and Venice

Matériographie

Matriographie, a photograph made using a toned silver gelatin print with themordanageprocess, by Jean-Pierre Sudre, whose work is view this week in the group exhibition Abstraction at Gitterman Gallery, in New York City.
The Estate of Jean-Pierre Sudre. Courtesy Gitterman Gallery, New York City

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[Article] from the August 2010 issue
Happiness Is a Worn Gun
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“Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don’t even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it’s safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes.”

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[Essay] from the September 2013 Issue
The Devil’s Bait
Symptoms, signs, and the riddle of Morgellons
[Article] from the July 2012 Issue
Citizen Walmart
The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers
[Letter from Lima] from the February 2012 Issue
All Politics Is Local
Election night in Peru’s largest prison
[Findings] A recent earthquake in Chile was found to have shifted the city of Concepción ten feet to the west, shortened Earth’s days by 1.26 microseconds, and shifted the planet’s axis by nearly three inches.
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[Findings] A biochemist in Texas discovered that the nutrient value of many common garden crops (mostly vegetables but also fruits such as melons and strawberries) has declined over the last fifty years as a result of modern agricultural practices.
February 2005 ◆
[Findings] A biologist found that the giant palm salamander, which possesses a tongue that can generate 18,000 watts of power per kilo of muscle, is nearly twice as strong as the Colorado river toad, hitherto the world’s strongest animal.
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