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Course Corrections

by Thomas Frank,

To the long list of American institutions that have withered since the dawn of the 1980s—?journalism, organized labor, mainline Protestantism, small-town merchants—?it may be time to add another: college-level humanities.…

Problem Number One

by Jeff Madrick,

This spring, Newark mayor Cory Booker, then considering a run for U.S. Senate, came to my office along with members of his staff to discuss national economic issues. We spent…

Content and Its Discontents

by Laurent Beccaria, Patrick Saint-Exupéry,Translated by John Cullen,

By Laurent Beccaria and Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, from an essay included as an insert in the Winter 2013 issue of the French quarterly XXI. Beccaria is the publisher of the…

Unloaded Magazines

From a list of 891 periodicals removed in July from the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s on-base stores. Magazine sales at military exchanges declined by 18.3 percent between…

December 5th, 2012

by Zipora Fried,

Happiness is a Warm Biscuit

From a glossary of terms used by three rival East Harlem street gangs, compiled by prosecutors for the April indictments of sixty-three gang members. Between October 2009 and March 2013,…

Stubble Trouble

From a court memo filed by attorneys for Samuel Mullet Sr., an Amish bishop from Bergholz, Ohio. Mullet was sentenced in February to fifteen years in prison for having coordinated…

Tooth in Advertising

From a video targeting prospective investors in TheRealToothFairies.com, transcribed by the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood before the video was removed from YouTube.

You Looking at Me?

From recent mental-health evaluations of John Hinckley Jr., included in court documents submitted in April in support of a request by his attorneys to increase the amount of time Hinckley…

A Kangaroo in Obama’s Court

by Lawrence Douglas,Art by Steve Mumford,

Will the Guantánamo tribunal execute a man we tortured?

Cold War Kids

by Irina Aleksander,

The international dispute over Russia’s orphans