Congress prepares to slap down prosecutors linked to the suicide of Aaron Swartz
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On the life-drawings of an American literary master
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Join us at McNally Jackson on Tuesday, January 15, at 7:00 p.m.
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A (relatively) diverse new Congress, Brigitte Bardot's elephant empathy, and life on Ezie Street
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The Soviet Union assesses its Afghan campaign (March 2009)
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“Debates over vaccination, then as now, were often cast as debates over the integrity of science, though they could just as easily be understood as conversations about power.”
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R.I.P. Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine contributor from 1965 to 1971
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Why efforts to contain disease are often seen as conspiracies to sell vaccines
Accounts of the legendary frontline ceasefires on Christmas Day between British and German soldiers
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“For every five oils used, an environmental disaster results.”
Read MoreA European human rights court hands down the first binding decision against Bush-era rendition techniques
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“[T]o be an artist . . . you really have to blast the launch pad to get liftoff, scorching everything and everyone around you, and you cause a lot of damage sometimes.”
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