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The Forever Ward

From cables sent by U.S. diplomats regarding the transfer of Guantánamo prisoners, among the 250,000 documents WikiLeaks began releasing last November. Despite a 2009 executive order signed by President Barack…

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Findings

The practice of black magic and the popularity of the Harry Potter franchise were both endangering India’s wild owls. American herpetologists traveled to a restaurant in Vietnam to examine a…

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New Books

I wonder whether they still make kids read that Stephen Spender poem, the one that begins “I think continually of those who were truly great.” I never liked that poem, as…

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A shtetl divided

Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn

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Keeping watch

The South African past as prologue

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The enveloping air

Light and moment in Monet

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Disappearing Ink

Afghanistan’s sham democracy

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