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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
Are the Afghan police using torture to achieve peace?
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The miracle of Straight Life
How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?
Is the new Vatican all talk?
The inexorable rise of American militarism
When you can’t afford to stop working
Why the world went to war in 1914
Why Mexican immigrants are moving back home
Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?
Photographs from Hidalgo County
The lost glory of America’s railroads
An Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab
Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic
Remembering World War I’s executed deserters
And how it changed the South
Making sense of our family-tree obsession
In search of justice and forgiveness in Florida
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On the road with Doug Stanhope
Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?
Inside the industry that’s making therapy obsolete
Televised auctions and the Great Recession
A poet’s guide to metal
Photographs from the 2014 Sochi Olympics
Will drought destroy the Southwest?
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…
How to be your own best doctor
Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side
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