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An Excerpt From “How to Rig an Election”

Why the Help America Vote Act has done anything but.

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Six Questions

Bet the Farm

Frederick Kaufman on how food stopped being food

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Political Asylum

Is the Media Walking Us Into Another War?

The right’s strange new trope: bloodless regime change in Libya was bad; bloody, useless regime change in Iraq and everywhere else is good.

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Art

New Hogan Lake, Valley Springs, California. Grant to install shade shelters and renovate picnic tables in Oak Knoll Campground, to reduce future maintenance and enhance visitor satisfaction. Amount of funding provided by the Recovery Act: $275,000

From Ress’s series America Recovered: A Survey of the ARRA, photos from which were featured in the November 2012 issue, accompanying Ian Volner's "The Invisible Stimulus."

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Special Feature

Monopoly Is Theft

The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game

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Art

A photograph from the London Olympics, by Jason Fulford. More work from this series is featured in the November 2012 issue, accompanying Geoff Dyer's "A Brief Period of Rejoicing."

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Publisher’s Note

Is Obama Merely Warming the Seat for Chicago Politics?

Talking with longtime city alderman Edward Burke about how the Chicago political machine launched Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel to national prominence.

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Political Asylum

The Right Time

Recapping Mitt Romney's most blatant and risible falsehoods at the second presidential debate.

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Political Asylum

David Brooks Wants to Mix It Up

On the genteel Republican Party of David Brooks's imagination

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“Jean-François Copé, the secretary general of France’s center-right opposition, lamented what he said was widespread bullying of French youths by devout Muslims. ‘There are areas,’ said Copé, ‘where children cannot even eat their pains au chocolat because it’s Ramadan.’”

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The Anti-Economist

Why Jack Welch Knows About Changing Numbers

As CEO of General Electric, Welch was a master of earnings enhancement.

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Commentary

The Democratic Argument for Compulsory Voting

Mandatory voting would greatly expand American electoral participation—and help the Democrats.

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Political Asylum

Yes. We. Can.

"Who knew it was going to be the Skypilot himself, Flight Chief Obama, scrambling for the eject button while the rest of us tried to batter down the cockpit door and force him back into his seat?"

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“A pro-Kremlin youth group made a video for Vladimir Putin’s sixtieth birthday, set to 'Blueberry Hill,' that showed attractive young women riding on horseback, scoring in a hockey game against the United States, and retrieving an urn from the sea.”

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Six Questions

Am I a Jew?: Six Questions for Theodore Ross

Theodore Ross discusses the history and evolution of American Judaism and recounts his attempt to reconcile with his childhood alienation from his Jewish heritage.

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Political Asylum

The Man Who Would Be Ex-President

After watching the first presidential debate, it’s hard not to wonder whether Barack Obama genuinely wants to remain in office.

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Political Asylum

Mitt Romney Announces His Intention to Cheat

"The presidential debate in Denver this evening is supposed to be exclusively about domestic policy. But in today’s New York Times, we read that 'advisers said he would try to broaden the argument against Obama’s job performance by raising questions about how his administration handled the attack on a diplomatic mission last month in Libya that killed four Americans.'"

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Publisher’s Note

The Friends Rushdie Forgot

Revising Salman Rushdie's self-history—from "The Friends Rushdie Forgot,” in the September 2012 issue of The Spectator.

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Political Asylum

Unlikely Questions for the First Presidential Debate

A sampling of topics we're not likely to hear discussed at the first, "domestic" presidential debate. These are the questions that, if they are somehow asked, we can expect both candidates to strenuously avoid answering.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“Authorities in Idaho traced a finger discovered inside a trout to Haans Galassi, who lost four fingers in a wakeboarding accident two months ago. ‘There’s still three more,’ said the detective who identified the finger. ‘It’s hard to say where those are going to end up.’”

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Political Asylum

The Crybabies’ Response to the Centrist

Mark Lilla says he's a centrist Democrat who was "relieved" to observe Obama's "political liberalism and instinctual conservatism." But which of the social programs generated by the Great Society's legislative "overreach" does he so object to?

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Political Asylum

The Literary Art of W. Mitt Romney

"Some have begun to detect a literary current in Mitt Romney’s seemingly mindless ramblings—a stream-of-consciousness that reflects, perhaps, the romantic wistfulness of the middle-aged man facing his own mortality."

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Political Asylum

Wall Street Places Its Election Bets

How do the two presidential candidates stack up in the eyes of America's investment class?

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

“Two hunters, one in Utah and another in Bordeaux, France, were shot by their own dogs. ‘It wasn’t the dog’s fault,’ said the French sportsman, whose hand had to be amputated. ‘He’s adorable!’”

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Political Asylum

Teatime With the Tea Party

"There’s little point now in trying to suss out whether Mitt Romney is at heart as much a thoroughgoing, Social Darwinist creep as the one he plays for rich donors. After a while, as Kurt Vonnegut once put it, “You are what you pretend to be.” And Romney’s pretenses have now infected not just the Republican leadership but its rank-and-file as well.??"

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

"The Birmingham National Sea Life Center in England reported that a nurse shark named Florence had become a vegetarian following surgery three years ago to remove a rusty hook. 'We’re having to hide pieces of fish inside celery sticks, hollowed out cucumbers, and between the leaves of lettuces to get her to eat them,' said curator Graham Burrows."

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