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The Acme Corporation

by Alec MacGillis,

A town fights back against a big-box coup

The People’s Assembly

by Sarah A. Topol,

How Egypt lost its parliament

Why Vote?

by Kevin Baker,

When your vote counts for nothing

The only game in town

by David (David J.) Sirota,

An unlikely comeback for dying newspapers

The great communicator

by Seth Rosenfeld,

Revelations from Ronald Reagan's FBI file

Fifty shades of gray

by Dan Halpern,

Mitt Romney as bad fiction

The Changeling

by David Samuels,

The content of Obama's character

The last distinction? Talking to the animals

by Benjamin Hale,

Nature’s perfect package

by James E. McWilliams,

Labeling our way to a clear conscience

Welcome to Free Syria

by Anand Gopal,

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country

The pink pyramid scheme

by Virginia Sole-Smith,

How Mary Kay cosmetics preys on desperate housewives

The one in front of you

by Sallie Tisdale,

A consideration of charity

Citizen Walmart

by Dan Halpern,

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

Broken Heartland

by Wil S. Hylton,

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

The government’s man

by Ken Silverstein,

How to read the résumé of a terrorist expert

In recovery

by Genevieve Smith,

Twelve steps to prosperity

My old man

by Clancy Martin,

On the road, a life real and imagined

Wild things

by David Samuels,

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos

Read my lips

by Chiara Barzini,

The Italian art of dubbing

American Nationalism

by John Lukacs,

The Last Tower

by Ben Austen,

The decline and fall of public housing

Unreconstructed

by Daniel Brook,

The federal government builds a shrine to its archenemy

Aretha

by Anthony Heilbut,

How she got over

Slipping through the net

by Matthew Power,

Cambodia’s border war against drug-resistant malaria

The Warrior Class

by Charles Glass,

A golden age for the freelance soldier

It’s a Rich Man’s World

by Thomas Frank,

How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates

A civil tongue

by Janine di Giovanni,

South Sudan tries to learn English

Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich

by Lawrence Douglas,

Enduring the "last great Nazi war-crimes trial"

The Tyranny of Breast-Feeding

by Elisabeth Badinter,

New mothers vs. La Leche League

Starving Your Way to Vigor

by Steve Hendricks,

The benefits of an empty stomach

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