How Washington sealed Puerto Rico’s fate

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Lincoln’s private thoughts on fate, failure, slavery, and belief

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The transgender community fights for health care

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We often forget that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was not always where it is today. It used to be seven hundred miles farther north, following what…

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My first year teaching at the university my father killed a man. I’m ashamed to say I don’t remember the man’s name, though I recall the man a good buddy…

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My first and still most vivid memory of a Woody Allen movie is of the scene in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)…

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Does fiction matter in a post-fact age?

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The surprising legacy of a ninety-year-old peace pact

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Those who believe in a just world are more likely to behave dishonestly. People think themselves to be morally superior even beyond their self-inflation of other positive qualities. Four fifths…

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Cut Too Deep In “Monumental Error” [Essay, November], J. C. Hallman unfairly skewers J. Marion Sims, the “Father of Gynecology.” He attributes to Sims a huge ego and the desire for…

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The footage is eerie, a plunge through a dim world of lush seaweed, the underwater forests of the treeless Arctic. Objects swim into view: a bell, a small fish, a…

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Percentage by which a marijuana user is likelier than others to eat fast food five or more times in a given week : 75 Amount the US pharmaceutical industry spent…

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By Virginia Eubanks, from Automating Inequality, which was published this month by St. Martin’s Press. Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY, and…

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From a list of seventy-one types of US households, as classified by Experian Marketing Services, the world’s largest credit data company. Golf Carts and GourmetsColleges and CafésModest Metro MeansStatus-Seeking SinglesFootloose…

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From Women, Whistleblowing, WikiLeaks, which was published last month by OR Books. The conversation from which this is excerpted took place in 2016 and was moderated by Joseph Farrell, a…

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From testimony given by the singer Taylor Swift in a Colorado district court in August. Swift alleges that David Mueller, a host at KYGO radio in Denver, groped her when…

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From Ask Zelda, an advice column that ran in SIDtoday, an internal newsletter for National Security Agency employees. This column appeared in July 2014, a year after Edward Snowden leaked…

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From a memo sent in October by Unicode typographers to the organization’s technical committee, which oversees the creation and modification of emoji. The memo concerns emoji that are proposed for…

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By Navid Kermani, from Wonder Beyond Belief, a collection of his commentaries on Christian artwork that was published this month by Polity. This essay concerns the sculpture Christ Child (circa…

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By Clarice Lispector, from The Chandelier, a novel that will be published in March by New Directions. Lispector (1920–77) was the author of more than a dozen novels and story…

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By Alli Warren, from Little Hill, a chapbook that was published this month by the Elephants. Warren’s previous collection of poetry, I Love It Though, was published last year by…

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