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Archive: 2005

The Shape We’re In

From similes recently used in newspapers and magazines to describe the shapes of federal and state legislative districts.

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In the Zone

From the transcript of radio communication among Israeli soldiers near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The recording was submitted in January in the trial of the company commander, whose…

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The Velveteen Revolution

From a list of 198 methods of nonviolent protest appended to From Dictatorship to Democracy, a manual by Gene Sharp, a political scientist at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston.…

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Many types of ambiguity

The enigma of Ingeborg Bachmann

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Ready-made rebellion

The empty tropes of transgressive fiction

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OPEC on the March

Why Iraq still sells its oil á la cartel

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After the Election

Iraq’s democratic preamble to civil war

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The Cuba diet

What will you be eating when the revolution comes?

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Death of a mountain

Radical strip mining and the leveling of Appalachia

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The $4.7 trillion pyramid

Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street

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