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Aspirational Brand

From a patient guide to the AspireAssist, a weight-loss device that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June.

Tearing Up the Map

by Andrew J. Bacevich, Hamid Dabashi, Hassan Hassan, Kori Schake, Dominique de Villepin, Paula J. Dobriansky,

Toward a post-Obama foreign policy

Land of Sod

by Carolyn Kormann,

Southern California homeowners vs. nature

Acceptable Losses

by Andrew Cockburn,

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

FMRI studies of white Americans watching white people and black people being poked by a needle and rubbed by an eraser confirmed the well-established differential empathic activation for race (DEAR…

It’s Not How They Say It

by Yvonne E. (Yvonne Ewing) Keairns,

From an interview with a girl in a reintegration program for former child soldiers in Colombia.

The New New Narcissism

by Kristin Dombek,

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

Test Perp

From a questionnaire created by Northpointe, a company that develops software to determine the likelihood that a defendant in a criminal trial will break the law in the future. The…

Atlas Aggregated

by Walter Kirn,

No social encounter delights me more than meeting a doctor at a cocktail party. In clinical settings, doctors tend to be guarded and aloof. Catch one with a whiskey in…

Graveyard Shift

From work-related fatalities reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 2014.

Lotion

by Simone White,

By Simone White, from Of Being Dispersed, a collection of poetry that was published in May by Futurepoem Books. White’s previous collection is Unrest.