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The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Division Street

by Robert Gumpert, Rebecca Solnit,

Chances are that you are living the good life, at least in the most fundamental sense. You have the liberty to leave your home and the security of a home…

Held Back

by Alexandria Neason,

Battling for the fate of a school district

Innocents

by Rachel Nolan,

Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika

Only an Apocalypse Can Save Us Now

by Mark Lilla,

On the politics of nostalgia

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

Acceptable Losses

by Andrew Cockburn,

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen

Land of Sod

by Carolyn Kormann,

Southern California homeowners vs. nature

A Sigh and a Salute

by Art Spiegelman,

An appreciation of Si Lewen and his Parade

The Origins of Speech

by Tom Wolfe,

In the beginning was Chomsky

Arrow Heads

by Reeves Wiedeman,

Living in archery

Abandon All Hope

by Nat Segnit,

Hieronymus Bosch comes home

Brighter Than a Billion Sunsets

by Lyle Rexer,

Why we take so many pictures and what it means for photography

El Bloqueo

by Joy Gordon,

The Cuban embargo continues

My Perfect Season

by Mark Edmundson,

Playing it safe in the Pee Wee League

My Holy Land Vacation

by Tom Bissell,

Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

The City That Bleeds

by Lawrence Jackson,

Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

Hashtag Prescription

by Helen Ouyang,

The hidden cost of crowd-sourcing a cure

The Long Rescue

by Sonia Faleiro,

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

In Hayange

by Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau,

In March 2014, Marine Le Pen’s National Front took charge of eleven municipalities, among them Hayange, a city of 16,000 in northeastern France, where the unemployment rate rose to 15…