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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

Rebirth of a Nation

by Jonathan Taplin,

Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war?

Blood Money

by Andrew Cockburn,

Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality

The Tragedy of Ted Cruz

by Ana Marie Cox,

Does likability still matter in politics?

Discovery, Interrupted

by Jeffrey Friedman,

How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality

Checkpoint Nation

by Melissa del Bosque,

Border agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior

Exile

by John Hockenberry,

And a year of trying to find a road back from personal and public shame

The Printed Word in Peril

by Will Self,

The age of Homo virtualis is upon us

Nothing but Gifts

by Edwin Dobb,

Finding a home in a world gone awry

Among Britain’s Anti-Semites

by Tanya Gold,

The Labour Party’s Moral Dilemma

The Deportation Racket

by Micah Hauser,

Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention

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