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Bleakness Stakes

by Ryann Liebenthal, Shayla Love,

From summaries of police-brutality cases recently settled by the city of Baltimore. An investigation conducted last year by the Baltimore Sun found that police-misconduct settlements have cost the city nearly…

Two Exiles

by Frederic Morton,

By Frederic Morton, from a speech given at the Vienna Haus der Barmherzigkeit two days before he died, in April. Morton was a critic, an essayist, and the author of…

When in Chrome

From an experiment conducted by Fixr.com, a cost-estimating website. The experiment collected the top search queries suggested by Google for the phrase “How much does * cost in [country].”

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by Hayato Wakabayashi,

Bastille Day

by Irina Rozovsky,

Wrong Prescription?

by Trudy Lieberman,

The failed promise of the Affordable Care Act

Travel Day

Photographs of airports by twenty photographers, with an essay by Geoff Dyer

The Speakeasy

by Dave Madden,

A week of stand-up in Hollywood’s toughest room

Fugue State

by Sarah A. Topol,

The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine

Counter Culture

by Caleb Crain,

Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

For every percentage point the foreclosure rate increased during the subprime-mortgage crisis, the average block in mixed black and white American neighborhoods gained 9.6 black residents and lost 4.5 white…