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Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…

Kiss and Makeup

by Laknath Jayasinghe, Mark Ritson,

From observational notes cited in “Everyday Advertising Context: An Ethnography of Advertising Response in the Family Living Room,” by the Australian researchers Laknath Jayasinghe and Mark Ritson, in the June…

Laundry and Candidates, Cairo, November 2011

by Rebecca Bird,

Wrong Answer

by Nicholson Baker,

The case against Algebra II

Helter Seltzer

by Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

The campaign against SodaStream

In the Republic

by Anonymous,

Photographs from Iran

The Devil’s Bait

by Leslie Jamison,

Symptoms, signs, and the riddle of Morgellons

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

In the United Kingdom, overfilled kettles were wasting £68 million per year; the rich refused to stop clearing their peat bogs for grouse shooting; a penis-shaped Kentish strawberry was not made…

Emptying the World’s Aquarium

by Erik Vance,

The dismal future of the global fishery

Toward Reglobalization

by Jeff Madrick,

It’s rare, in economics as in life, to get a second chance. Though economists are constantly learning lessons from past mistakes, seldom are there obvious opportunities to apply them. The…

Beyond the Book

by Mark Kingwell,

By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…