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The Call of the Drums

by Jacob Mikanowski ,

Hungary's far right discovers its inner barbarian

Brutal from the Beginning

by Marc de Miramon , Translated by Maggie Calt ,

The truth about everyone’s favorite strongman

“Just Keep Going North”

by William T. Vollmann ,

At the border

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Marilynne Robinson ,

An idea that won’t go away

Downstream

by Rowan Moore Gerety ,

The afterlife of American junk

What it Means to Be Alive

by Justin Taylor ,

Decoding a father’s farewell

The Military-Industrial Virus

by Andrew Cockburn ,

How bloated defense budgets gut our armed forces

Where Our New World Begins

by Kevin Baker ,

Politics, power, and the Green New Deal

The Truce

by Daniel Castro ,

How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador

Lost at Sea

by Joe Kloc ,

Poverty and paradise at the edge of America

Nightmares at 20,000 Feet

by Lisa Wells ,

On the dread of looking down

Whisperings

by David Means ,

A writer alone with the work

Works of Mercy

by John Crowley ,

The power of pastoral care

More Than a Data Dump

by James C. Goodale ,

Why Julian Assange deserves First Amendment protection

Destined for Export

by Rachel Nolan ,

The troubled legacy of Guatemalan adoptions

Like This or Die

by Christian Lorentzen ,

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

The Story of Storytelling

by Ferris Jabr ,

What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own

No Joe!

by Andrew Cockburn ,

Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

The Myth of White Genocide

by James Pogue ,

An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion

Catechism of the Waters

by Sallie Tisdale ,

Species in conflict on the Columbia River

We Were So Happy Then

by Lynn Freed ,

Life in the new South Africa

Without a Trace

by Matthew Wolfe ,

Missing, in an age of mass displacement

Orphan Bachelors

by Fae Myenne Ng ,

Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

“Tell Me How This Ends”

by Charles Glass ,

America’s muddled involvement with Syria

Going to Extremes

by Ann Neumann ,

Are homicides among the elderly acts of mercy or malice?

What China Threat?

by Kishore Mahbubani ,

How the United States and China can avoid war

Long Shot

by Azad Cudi ,

The story of a Kurdish sniper

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner ,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Donald Trump Is a Good President

by Michel Houellebecq , Translated by John Cullen ,

One foreigner’s perspective

Polar Light

by Barry Lopez ,

Searching for the solar system’s origins at the end of the earth

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