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The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live
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Will the 9/11 case finally go to trial?
A journey through America’s nuclear heartland
America’s long struggle with affirmative action
In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
Around the world with the Goya of conflict photography
Harvest on an American family farm
When a state divests from public education
Environmentalist momentum in the West
A life without food
The innovations of A.R. Ammons
The village where girls turn into boys
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
The coming crackdown
Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
The disgraced broadcaster’s distortions of history
The Democrats struggle to rise from the ashes
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Trump’s tussle with the bureaucratic state
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
Can officials be held liable for the suffering they inflict?
The mathematics of predicting war
What’s forgotten in China’s time-lapse urbanism
Is Donald Trump a fascist or a plutocrat?
The human network behind the biggest leak of all
Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community
The scandal of mental health in West Africa
Bill de Blasio gambles on doing the right thing
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