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Barack and Hamid’s excellent adventure

Afghanistan's president visits the White House

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Paradise Swamped

The boom and bust of the middle-class dream

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Happiness Is a Worn Gun

My concealed weapon and me

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A Dozen Dawn Songs, Plus One

First the windows gray, then go black again, but gray is on the way. Williams lights up and says, It’s on the way, but I can’t hear him over the…

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In a Watery Mood

From an email exchange between psychologist Arabella Kurtz and novelist J. M. Coetzee

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Condemned to Delete It

From edits to history and social-studies curriculum guidelines proposed this year by Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy, who was defeated in the Republican primary in March. Jean…

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Findings

Antisocial behavior among boys was correlated with both precocious puberty and delayed puberty; badly behaved teenage girls were found to have a hard time discerning anger and disgust on other…

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The moviegoer

Manny Farber in the cinema trenches

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