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21st century

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Family Values

by Masha Gessen,

Mapping the spread of antigay ideology

Itchy Nose

by Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

A Matter of Life

by Mary Cuddehe,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

Good Plain English

by Nat Segnit,

The problem with writing manuals

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Acoustic ocean gliders recorded the Western Pacific Biotwang, a complex call emanating from the Mariana Trench, with moans as deep as 38 Hz and metallic peaks as high as 8000…

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

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by Lincoln Agnew,

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…