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Disagreement in Paris

“The treaty is miraculous and horrible. It neither gives enough to the most vulnerable nor takes enough from the profligate, but it shifts the arrangement between them for the better.”

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Publisher’s Note

Something to Cry About

"I was confident the French weren’t going to follow the bad example from overseas and start a 'war on terror' à l’américaine. But November 13 changed the equation."

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A survey of U.S. special-operations personnel found that 64 percent of male respondents believe women are not mentally tough enough to serve in commando units, and 20 female politicians won municipal office in the first Saudi Arabian election in which women were allowed to vote. A Norwegian study found that men have a better sense of direction than women, and a Florida man who was running from the police waded into a lake and was eaten by an alligator. “It’s not a bad idea,” said an officer, “to go into the water.”

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Context

The Rising Tide

Barack Obama meets with the nations most threatened by climate change; Tuvalu plans for the future of its sinking islands

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Dispatch

Live Ghosts

"Indigenous people from Indonesia to Alaska have come to the Paris climate summit in the hundreds, perhaps even the thousands, to defend their lands and their people from erasure."

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Editor's Note

Introducing the January Issue

Alan Lightman, John Darnielle, Art Spiegelman, Anne Carson, and more.

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Supplemental Reading

Mission Impossible

The perils of translating Primo Levi

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Conversation

Choosing Words

"There is this idea that writing beautifully or writing powerfully is somehow separate from clear thinking," says Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me. "It’s not."

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The porn actress known as Stoya accused the porn actor James Deen of rape. A 19-year-old named Bud Weisser was arrested for trespassing at a Budweiser brewery in Missouri; and, in Florida, an expert on driving under the influence was arrested for driving under the influence. Reddit users launched a campaign to deliver Christmas cards to the only child attending school on the Scottish island of Out Skerries.. The president of Mauritania was suspected of ending a championship soccer game out of boredom. Read more...

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Conversation

Mountain Ambush

"Looking at the detailed Russian timeline of what happened," says defense analyst Pierre Sprey, "I'd say the evidence looks pretty strong that the Turks were setting up an ambush."

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Dispatch

The End-of-the-World’s Fair

"If a wealthy country won’t contemplate tapering down a relatively new industry, then what are we to say to Kuwait, Iraq, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, whose economies rely hugely on fossil fuel?"

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Postcard

Congo Square

New Orleans reckons with its legacy of slavery 

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Dispatch

Calculated Risk

Rebecca Solnit reports from the Paris climate summit

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Art

Greenpoint Then and Now

Greenpoint Then and Now, illustrations, by Julia Wertz, of three blocks in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, as they appeared in the 1920s and today. View all...

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Officials in Turkey said they would not apologize for shooting down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet that was traveling through Turkish airspace near the Syrian border. Saudi Arabia announced that its Justice Ministry would sue a Twitter user who criticized its decision to execute a poet for apostasy as “ISIS-like.” The Islamic State killed four police officers in a drive-by shooting in Egypt, beat to death a 17-year-old Austrian girl in Syria who was attempting to flee the group, and launched an anti-smoking campaign. “Smoking,” reads the campaign slogan, “killed millions.” Read more...

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Readings

Thanks, Obama

From entries made since 2009 to the U.S. Protocol Gift Unit Federal Register Report, which records items given by foreign dignitaries to federal employees.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The Food and Drug Administration approved genetically engineered salmon for human consumption. Ethiopian Airlines operated its first flight staffed entirely by women, Salt Lake City elected its first openly gay mayor, and two 35-year-old men became the first gay couple to wed in Ireland. The National Institutes of Health announced that it would end its use of chimpanzees in biomedical experiments, and an animal-rights group sued a Louisiana amusement park for allowing a chimpanzee named Candy to smoke cigarettes and drink Coca-Cola. Read More...

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Context

How the Islamic State Was Won

The Islamic State's influence grows; James Harkin interviews its fighters, enemies, and potential recruits

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Postcard

Workers’ Paradise

After more than half a century of socialist revolution, Cubans exemplify sustainable living—whether they want to or not.

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Commentary

Shaky Foundations

The Clintons' so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The Canadian Judicial Council was reviewing a judge’s behavior in a 2014 trial in which a 19-year-old woman alleged she had been sexually assaulted. “Why,” the judge had asked the woman, “couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” In Ontario, a woman was arrested for drunk driving after her nine-year-old son, who was in the car with her, called the police; in Ohio, a man was arrested after he forced a nine-year-old neighbor to drive him to a gas station to buy barbecue sauce; and in Florida, an officer scheduled to receive an award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving arrived at the ceremony too drunk to accept it. Read more...

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Editor's Note

Introducing the December Issue

Alexandra Kleeman subjects herself to a week of bed rest, Nat Segnit celebrates Waterloo’s bicentennial, Charlotte Dumas documents Japan’s endangered horses, and more

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Art

Again Gone By

An illustrated interpretation of “Gone, Gone Again,” by the British poet Edward Thomas.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Two marshals in Marksville, Louisiana, were arrested after a body-camera video showed them shooting at a car they were chasing, killing the six-year-old boy sitting inside. A student at the University of California, Merced, was killed by university police after he stabbed four people on campus with a hunting knife. A hacking organization published the membership databases of several Ku Klux Klan websites. A Danish man appeared in a South African court this week on charges that he mutilated the genitals of his wife and at least six other women and kept their dried clitorises on a hook and in his freezer. Read more...

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Publisher’s Note

At Any Cost

"The pundits overestimate Americans’ supposedly anti-aristocratic tendencies, and underestimate Jeb’s profound determination to win."

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Context

The Body Politic

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse.

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Conversation

Money Trail

“We spent 36 million dollars on a building that was totally built, never used, and has been turned over the Afghans. As far as we know, it’s empty.”

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Context

Chronicle of a War Foretold

On the move with Ahmad Chalabi, the man who would be king

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Postcard

In Solitary

For more than two decades, Willie Bosket spent twenty-three hours a day alone in a nine-by-six-foot cage.

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Readings

Jaded Lady

From headlines that appeared between 1992 and 2014 in the New York Times.

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