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Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

The Communist Evolution

From a letter to President Roosevelt written by Fidel Castro in 1940. It is among a collection of letters to U.S. presidents that will be displayed in November at the…

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California Reamin’

From recordings of conversations between Enron energy traders obtained by the Snohomish County, Washington, power utility in May. The conversations took place during California’s 2000-2001 energy crisis, which saw wholesale…

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This Atrocity Thing

From notes taken during a November 21, 1969, telephone conversation between National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird following the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s publication of photographs…

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Strangely Familiar

From a list of plots and. themes of stories submitted “too frequently” to Strange Horizons, an online magazine of “speculative fiction.” The document was compiled in order to provide guidance…

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