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Why Vote?

When your vote counts for nothing

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The only game in town

An unlikely comeback for dying newspapers

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The great communicator

Revelations from Ronald Reagan's FBI file

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Nature’s perfect package

Labeling our way to a clear conscience

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Welcome to Free Syria

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country

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The pink pyramid scheme

How Mary Kay cosmetics preys on desperate housewives

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Citizen Walmart

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

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Broken Heartland

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

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The government’s man

How to read the résumé of a terrorist expert

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In recovery

Twelve steps to prosperity

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My old man

On the road, a life real and imagined

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Wild things

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos

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Read my lips

The Italian art of dubbing

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The Last Tower

The decline and fall of public housing

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Unreconstructed

The federal government builds a shrine to its archenemy

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Aretha

How she got over

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Slipping through the net

Cambodia’s border war against drug-resistant malaria

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The Warrior Class

A golden age for the freelance soldier

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It’s a Rich Man’s World

How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates

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A civil tongue

South Sudan tries to learn English

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Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich

Enduring the "last great Nazi war-crimes trial"

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Starving Your Way to Vigor

The benefits of an empty stomach

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