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The March on Everywhere

by Leslie Jamison,

The ragged glory of female activism

Asphalt Gardens

by Samuel James,

The Boy Without a Country

by Jessica Weisberg,

Tokyo’s painful exclusion of immigrants

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

Itchy Nose

by Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

Family Values

by Masha Gessen,

Mapping the spread of antigay ideology

A Matter of Life

by Mary Cuddehe,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

Black Like Who?

by Calvin Baker,

How Obama negotiated America’s racial tightrope

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

The Number That No Man Could Number

by Anthony Heilbut,

Black America’s civil war over gay rights

Little Things

by Alice Gregory,

The outsized pleasures of the very small

The Patient War

by May Jeong,

What awaits Trump in Afghanistan

Aline & Bob

by R. Crumb,

In troubles with money

The Trouble with Defectors

by Scott Ritter,

What informants taught an intelligence officer

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

The Notes of Patrick Modiano

by Peter De Jonge,

A young writer finds his voice on the radio

Over the River

by Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint

Bounty Hunters

by Jeremy Miller,

A clandestine war on wolves

The Lightness

by Catherine Meurisse,

A Charlie Hebdo cartoonist finds refuge from terror

The Priest in the Trees

by Fred Bahnson,

Feral faith in the age of climate change

Separated at Birth

by Daniel Asa Rose,

An inquiry over time into the luckiest generation

So Subtle a Catch

by Simon Parkin,

The illicit attraction of the lowly carp

The New Red Scare

by Andrew Cockburn,

Reviving the art of threat inflation

With Child

by Kiera Feldman,

The right to choose in Rapid City

Campaign Sketches

by Steve Mumford,

Drawings from rallies for Donald Trump

“Don’t Touch My Medicare!”

by Trudy Lieberman,

Is the beloved program on its last legs?

Swat Team

by Thomas Frank,

The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

Escape from The Caliphate

by Jennifer Percy,

Rescuing and ransoming Christian hostages in Iraq

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