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Return of the Strongman

How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?

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Francis and the Nuns

Is the new Vatican all talk?

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Armed and Dangerous

The inexorable rise of American militarism

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The End of Retirement

When you can’t afford to stop working

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The Seductive Catastrophe

Why the world went to war in 1914

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Good Pilgrims

Why Mexican immigrants are moving back home

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Promises, Promises

Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?

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Borderlands

Photographs from Hidalgo County

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21st Century Limited

The lost glory of America’s railroads

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The Man Who Stole the Nile

An Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab

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Northern Exposure

Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic

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Stop Time

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

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Our Common Trouble

In search of justice and forgiveness in Florida

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You Had to Be There

On the road with Doug Stanhope

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The Quinoa Quarrel

Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?

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50,000 Life Coaches Can’t Be Wrong

Inside the industry that’s making therapy obsolete

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Found Money

Televised auctions and the Great Recession

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Dark Heights

Photographs from the 2014 Sochi Olympics

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Razing Arizona

Will drought destroy the Southwest?

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Blue Sky Days

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

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Diagnose This

How to be your own best doctor

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side

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