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21st century

Universal Use

by John Crowley,

In the 1950 film The Men, Marlon Brando in his first movie role plays Ken, a paraplegic World War II veteran struggling alongside other vets with spinal-cord injuries to learn…

Pay Dirt

by Maya Dukmasova,

From messages written on birch-bark scrolls between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries in Old Novgorodian, a precursor of Russian. A cache of scrolls, preserved for centuries in mud, was found…

Fuzzfeed

From posts to Five-O, an app created by three African-American teenage siblings that allows users to comment on interactions with police officers.

Alcoholics Synonymous

by Tony Thorne,

From a list of slang terms used by British students to describe drunkenness or the effects of drugs, included by Tony Thorne in the fourth edition of the Dictionary of…

Tort Fishing in America

From the November 2014 Supreme Court oral argument in Yates v. United States. In 2007, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer found seventy-two undersize red grouper on John L. Yates’s…

From requests made to Ilse Blansert, a Dutch artist, by people who experience ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), a condition characterized by a pleasurable tingling sensation activated by certain sounds…

Come With Us If You Want to Live

by Sam Frank,

Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse

The Problem of Pain Management

by Simon Liem, Jonah Campbell,

The makers of OxyContin play dirty

Game On

by Andrew Cockburn,

East vs. West, again

Wild Pigeon

by Carolyn Drake,

21st century

Universal Use

Pay Dirt

Fuzzfeed

Alcoholics Synonymous

Tort Fishing in America

Trigger Happy

Come With Us If You Want to Live

The Body Politic

The Problem of Pain Management

Game On

Wild Pigeon

Debug

21st century

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Universal Use

Pay Dirt

Fuzzfeed

Alcoholics Synonymous

Tort Fishing in America

Trigger Happy

Come With Us If You Want to Live

The Body Politic

The Problem of Pain Management

Game On

Wild Pigeon

January 2015

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