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Downstream

by Rowan Moore Gerety,

The afterlife of American junk

Where Our New World Begins

by Kevin Baker,

Politics, power, and the Green New Deal

The Truce

by Daniel Castro,

How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador

Lost at Sea

by Joe Kloc,

Poverty and paradise at the edge of America

More Than a Data Dump

by James C. Goodale,

Why Julian Assange deserves First Amendment protection

Nightmares at 20,000 Feet

by Lisa Wells,

On the dread of looking down

Whisperings

by David Means,

A writer alone with the work

Works of Mercy

by John Crowley,

The power of pastoral care

Like This or Die

by Christian Lorentzen,

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Destined for Export

by Rachel Nolan,

The troubled legacy of Guatemalan adoptions

The Story of Storytelling

by Ferris Jabr,

What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own

No Joe!

by Andrew Cockburn,

Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

The Myth of White Genocide

by James Pogue,

An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion

Catechism of the Waters

by Sallie Tisdale,

Species in conflict on the Columbia River

We Were So Happy Then

by Lynn Freed,

Life in the new South Africa

“Tell Me How This Ends”

by Charles Glass,

America’s muddled involvement with Syria

Without a Trace

by Matthew Wolfe,

Missing, in an age of mass displacement

Orphan Bachelors

by Fae Myenne Ng,

Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

What China Threat?

by Kishore Mahbubani,

How the United States and China can avoid war

Going to Extremes

by Ann Neumann,

Are homicides among the elderly acts of mercy or malice?

Donald Trump Is a Good President

by Michel Houellebecq,Translated by John Cullen,

One foreigner’s perspective

Long Shot

by Azad Cudi,

The story of a Kurdish sniper

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Polar Light

by Barry Lopez,

Searching for the solar system’s origins at the end of the earth

Preservation Acts

by Nora Caplan-Bricker,

Toward an ethical archive of the web

The Vanishing

by Janine di Giovanni,

The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance

They Dance Cheek to Cheek

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

A contemplation of my parents’ marriage

The Gatekeepers

by Mychal Denzel Smith,

On the burden of the black public intellectual

Investigating Hate

by Kathy Dobie,

Inside New York City’s task force on bias

Two Years in Auschwitz

by Marco Lauer,

A personal history of the Holocaust

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