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Gruel and Unusual

From complaints filed since 2015 by inmates at the Morgan County jail, in Alabama. The complaints were included in a lawsuit filed last year against Ana Franklin, the county sheriff,…

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Fact Minders

From a list of Wikipedia editors that the site has flagged because of long-term abuse.

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Four More Years

The Trump reelection nightmare and how we can stop it

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Mobbed Up

How America boosts the Afghan opium trade

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Cursed Fields

What the tundra has in store for Russia’s reindeer herders

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The Pain Refugees

The forgotten victims of America’s opioid crisis

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Flowers of Evil

Last season was a strange one in my garden, notable not only for the unseasonably cool and wet weather — the talk of gardeners all over New England — but…

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A Port In a Storm

A community’s quest to save its harbor

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Hostile Work Environments

A sexual harassment reading list

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Find the Edges

His wife had worked at jigsaw puzzles like he imagined beavers worked at logs. If you were a beaver and you worked at logs, you probably had a saying or…

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New Books

The year 2017 was, I presume, an awkward, anxious moment to be named poet laureate of the United States. What the writer owes the collective and where she fits within…

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Never Done

The impossible work of motherhood

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Findings

Rainy Election Days swing at least 1 percent of voters from Democrat to Republican; partisans tend to think that their candidate is taller than the opposing candidate; and politicians who…

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Letters

Where to from Here? My husband and I recognize that we owe a great debt to the LGBT generations of the past, but with social acceptance and the freedom to…

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Harper’s Index

Percentage of Belgium’s army that is actively deployed domestically : 13 Pages of shredded files that the Stasi Records Agency in Germany has reconstructed by hand since 1990 : 1,500,000…

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Nobody Knows

When I was eighteen, I spent several months working as a bus girl at a diner. It was a cheerful-looking place, facing San Francisco Bay. The kitchen was L-shaped: the…

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Running to the Grave

By Barbara Ehrenreich, from Natural Causes, which will be published next month by Twelve. Ehrenreich is the author of more than a dozen books, including Nickel and Dimed (Henry Holt).…

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Unconscious Couplings

From descriptions of products sold by InfoWars, a far-right radio show hosted by Alex Jones, and by Goop, a website created by Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Village People

By Terry Southern (1924–95), from an unpublished manuscript written in 1952. It is included in Making It Hot for Them, a collection of his writings edited by Nile Southern that…

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Regarding the Pain of Others

From “Cultural Differences in Response to Pain,” a section included in the textbook Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning, published by Pearson. In October, the company announced that it would…

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Pardon the Intrusion

By Lydia Davis, from a story collection in progress. Davis is editing a book of essays that will be published next year. She is a writer and translator.

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The Elements of Vile

From editorial notes given to Milo Yiannopoulos, a leader of the “alt-right,” by Mitchell Ivers, a vice president at Simon & Schuster, on his manuscript for Dangerous. Last year, Simon…

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