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In recovery

by Genevieve Smith,

Twelve steps to prosperity

My old man

by Clancy Martin,

On the road, a life real and imagined

Wild things

by David Samuels,

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos

Read my lips

by Chiara Barzini,

The Italian art of dubbing

American Nationalism

by John Lukacs,

The farther shore

by Lorena Guillén Vaschetti,

The Last Tower

by Ben Austen,

The decline and fall of public housing

Unreconstructed

by Daniel Brook,

The federal government builds a shrine to its archenemy

Ignorance of Things Past

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Who wins and who loses when we forget American history

Elderly animals

by Isa Leshko,

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Art by Norbert Bisky,

Aretha

by Anthony Heilbut,

How she got over

Slipping through the net

by Matthew Power,

Cambodia’s border war against drug-resistant malaria

The Warrior Class

by Charles Glass,

A golden age for the freelance soldier

It’s a Rich Man’s World

by Thomas Frank,

How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates

A civil tongue

by Janine di Giovanni,

South Sudan tries to learn English

Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich

by Lawrence Douglas,

Enduring the "last great Nazi war-crimes trial"

The Tyranny of Breast-Feeding

by Elisabeth Badinter,

New mothers vs. La Leche League

Starving Your Way to Vigor

by Steve Hendricks,

The benefits of an empty stomach

Vote here

by Michael Mergen,

Some assembly required

by Nathan Schneider,

Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street

All Politics Is Local

by Daniel Alarcón,

Election night in Peru’s largest prison

Killing the Competition

by Barry C. Lynn,

How the new monopolies are destroying open markets

Five stories

by Diane Williams,

Her heart inform her tongue

by Alexandra Fuller,

Language lost and found

The Long Draw

by Jeremy Miller,

On the trail of an artistic mystery in the American West

Calderón’s war

by Cecilia Ballí,

The gruesome legacy of Mexico's antidrug campaign

Stop Payment!

by Christopher Ketcham,

A homeowners' revolt against the banks

A Rising Tide

by Andrew Marantz,

Planning the future of a sinking island

American Vespers

by Earl Shorris,

The ebbing of the body politic

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