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A town in Missouri said that it will consult state law to determine how to fill positions on its board of trustees after an election in which not a single vote was cast. Read More
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The Crow Whisperer

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Don’t Dolittle: on the need to reassess our relationship with animals Read More
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In Ohio, a 57-year-old manufacturing plant employee was arrested after she texted her sister that a man who had been fired the day before had returned with a gun, which was an April Fools’ Day joke. Read More
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The Possessed

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No Ouija board required: on Philip Roth’s writing, legacy, and a new biography Read More
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After triggering two fire alarms, an illegally installed communal popcorn machine was removed from the North Dakota State Capitol. Read More
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Pafko at the Wall

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At the precipice of the 20th century: Jennifer Egan and Rowan Ricardo Phillips discuss Don DeLillo’s prologue to Underworld Read More
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The Kremlin announced that the identity of the COVID-19 vaccine administered to Vladimir Putin would remain a secret. Read More
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False Prophets

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Beg, borrow, or steal: the questionable business of artifacts Read More
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It was reported that President Biden’s dogs will be temporarily relocated to Delaware after one of them, Major, bit a Secret Service agent. Read More
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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil told his constituents to stop “fussing and whining” about the pandemic. Read More
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An elementary school student with COVID-like symptoms was placed in isolation inside a storage closet because of spacing limitations. Read More
Publisher’s Note

The New McCarthyism

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“Obviously, this is not to say that a New Stalinism is on the rise.” Read More
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The Miss India 2020 runner-up rode to a victory rally at her alma mater in her father’s auto rickshaw. Read More
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“There’s no question—none—that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” said the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, several minutes after voting to acquit Trump. Read More
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Absolute Proof, a three-hour documentary about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, aired on One America News Network with a disclaimer that it was “opinion only.” Read More
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The Reconciliation

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“So what is to be done about our 74 million fellow citizens who voted for a crook, and about the boisterous minority among them who would be willing to follow Trump’s banner to the bitter end?” Read More
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Playing the Flute

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Oil spills in Colombia Read More
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A man in Derbent, Russia, was arrested for cooking barbecue over an eternal flame memorializing soldiers who died in World War II. Read More
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Melania Trump asked members of her staff to write thank-you notes “in her voice” to the rest of the White House staff. Read More
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Donald Trump became the first American president to be impeached for a second time. Read More
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Complexity

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QAnon and the mechanics of belief Read More
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In a caucus call, Nevada representative Steven Horsford told his colleagues he thought the unrest in the U.S. Capitol was “an inside job,” implying a tactical alliance between the Capitol Police and rioters. Read More
In Memoriam

The Story He Will Never Write

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Remembering Barry Lopez Read More
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Cover of January 2017

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Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Read More
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Publishing John le Carré

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“When I traveled from Paris to Prague in 1983, I deliberately took the train because I wanted to pass through the Iron Curtain overland, to feel the fear of being arrested, and to undergo a search by officers of a police state—which is to say, I wanted to experience something like what happens in one of le Carré’s novels.” Read More
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Indiana’s LaGrange County repealed a law banning large-scale, multiday gatherings like Woodstock. Read More
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In the Philippines, soldiers and cabinet ministers received an unapproved COVID-19 vaccine in the name of national security. Read More
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“If Only I Could Begin Again!”

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The power of memoir Read More
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Vice President Mike Pence and President-elect Joe Biden were vaccinated against COVID-19 in separate televised events. Read More
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Skin in the Game

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A market-based solution to the student-debt crisis may have financial repercussions that are just as burdensome Read More
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