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Safety in Knickers

From the Indiegogo funding-campaign profile for AR Wear, described as “wearable protection for when things go wrong.” The company surpassed its $50,000 funding goal last year and is currently at…

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How the Islamic State Was Won

Interviews with fighters, enemies, and potential recruits

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Cage Wars

A visit to the egg farm

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Off the Land

What subsistence really looks like

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Camelot Revisited

We engage in political activity so that we may, as societies of men, deal with the world as it is. This is not a slight endeavor; the world as it…

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Climbers

“The thing you have to understand is that I really don’t understand people.” Gil sat on a squashy old sofa, legs akimbo, forearms on thighs. He was wearing a dark-green…

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New Books

Denis Johnson’s heart beats for the lowlifes and fuck-ups, drunks and speed freaks, the losers who are on their last score and the scavengers feeding on the edges of foreign…

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Everyday Grace

Marilynne Robinson’s unsaved

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Paradise Lost

Did Wonder Woman fail feminism?

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Findings

A Thai woman fed herself to crocodiles. Invasive Japanese stiltgrass, in preventing wolf spiders from finding and cannibalizing one another, was causing the spiders to eat more young American toads.…

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Stop Hillary!

Vote no to a Clinton dynasty

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The Monkey Did It

The facts in the case of Haruki Murakami

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PBS Self-Destructs

And what it means for viewers like you

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Harper’s Index

Percentage of U.S. Republicans who say they could not live on the minimum wage : 69 Who support raising it : 37 Minimum number of times since 2011 that members of Congress have accidentally…

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Against Human Rights

From The Twilight of Human Rights Law, by Eric A. Posner, out next month from Oxford University Press. Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Amarildo…

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The Social Nyetwork

From a 2014 internal report by the Internet Research Agency, a company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, that generates anti-American propaganda. The agency hired dozens of people to leave comments…

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Remembrance of Things Trashed

From The Missing Pieces, a book describing works of art that were lost, forgotten, destroyed, left unfinished, or never made, by Henri Lefebvre, published this month by Semiotext(e). Lefebvre founded…

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Poem Begun on a Train

By Raphael Rubinstein, from Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, published in August by Black Ocean. Rubinstein is the author of several books, most recently The Miraculous (Paper Monument).

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In My Father’s Study upon His Death

By Dylan Landis, the author of several books, including Rainey Royal, her first novel, published last month by Soho Press.

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Cassandra Among the
Creeps

The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf…

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The Operative’s Words

From the CIA’s 2011 style guide, recently acquired by the National Security Counselors, a legal nonprofit, following a Freedom of Information Act request.

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