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The Lottery

by Vanessa Gregory,

The false promises of foreign-labor recruiters

The Charmer

by Fredrik deBoer,

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

by Scott Sayare,

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

There are Other Forces at Work

by John Darnielle,

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

It was determined that nine of ten Canadians who kill their minor stepchildren are men, that the U.S. health-care system is not equipped to address the needs of pregnant men,…

Divide and Conquer

by Harper’s Magazine,

Sample problems from a mathematics textbook for children between six and twelve years old, published by the Islamic State’s ministry of education.

Power in Paris

by Rebecca Solnit,

Can the earth be saved by bureaucrats in long meetings, reciting jargon and acronyms while surrounded by leaning towers of documents? That is what’s supposed to happen in France this…

Invisible City

by Justin E. H. Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from a work in progress. Smith’s fourth book, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (Princeton), will be published in June. At the end of August, the oldest…

Thanks, Obama

From entries made since 2009 to the U.S. Protocol Gift Unit Federal Register Report, which records items given by foreign dignitaries to federal employees.

Pain Quotidien

From a list of approximately 70,000 diagnostic codes included in the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification, which was adopted by U.S. health-care providers in October.

Shit Talkers

From an audio recording entered as evidence in a 2014 lawsuit filed by a man identified as D.B., who claims that he inadvertently recorded his colonoscopy on his cell phone.…