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Foundering father

by Alexander Hamilton,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

A 1797 confession of adultery

Let them eat nutri-cake

by Sheldon Rampton,

Merriam-Webster thinks our "biosolids" don't stink

Goodbye to all that

by Christopher Hitchens,

Why Americans are not taught history

Freedom fighters

by Don Wallace,

When the Prague Spring came to a California high school

Coming home

by John Hildebrand,

Hunting squirrels and tigers with the Hmong

Bulldozer diplomacy

by Malu Halasa,

Israel plays politics with Palestinian development

Planet of weeds

by David Quammen,

Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants

The soul encoded

Software that thinks it knows you

The hum of bees

by Susan Brind Morrow,

A civilization made of flowers, light, and wax

Beyond Belief

by Fenton Johnson,

A skeptic searches for an American faith

Washington meal ticket

by Michael Lind,

How to buy a senator's smile

Imperial variations

Torch Song

by Charles Bowden,

At the peripheries of violence and desire

Who’ll stop the drain? Reflections on the art of going broke

by Vince Passaro,

Sisyphus in the basement

by George Packer,

Reflections of a lapsed socialist

Where the Good Begins

by Edwin Dobb,

Notes on the art of modern travel

The Secret Sharer

by JoAnn Wypijewski,

Sex, race, and denial in an American small town

Nice couple boys

by Tony Hendra,

A sentimental education in stand-up comedy

Scent of a Woman’s Ink

by Francine Prose,

Are women writers really inferior?

A Hundred Rivers Run Through It

by Wade Graham,

California floats its future on a market for water

Global roulette

Edited by Ted C. Fishman,

In a volatile world economy, can everyone lose?

Where Women Are Women and so Are Men

by Fay Weldon,

In today’s Britain, every man’s a queen

The incoherent brain

by Allyson Goldin,

Learning to teach the learning disabled

Washington wheel of fortune

by Philip Guedalla,

Two stops, a century apart, on a losing number

Fast forward

by Mark Kingwell,

Our high-speed chase to nowhere

The forgotten killer

by Vince Passaro,

The work of William S. Burroughs, once dangerous, is in danger itself

And then there were none

by Debra Weyermann,

On the Navajo reservation, a passion for blood sport

No place like home

by Eric Brosch,

Orlando's poor laws attempt to regulate the homeless away

Hitler’s couch

by Mark Slouka,

When history makes an unexpected entrance

Virtual Tibet

by Orville Schell,

Where the mountains rise from the sea of our yearning

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