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Removable Feast

From remarks in the Montana State Legislature concerning a bill allowing drivers to salvage the carcasses of antelope, deer, elk, and moose killed in automobile accidents. In 2011, there were…

Naan to Five

From 2,945 occupations listed in the current edition of India’s National Classification of Occupations. Spinning Master Taxing Master Numismatist Rock Slicer Impression Taker Weather Observer

Getting to Eureka

by Thomas Frank,

The writer for Harper’s Magazine had a problem. Books he read and people he knew had been warning him that the nation and maybe mankind itself had wandered into a…

Clowning Achievement

by Bernhard Paul,Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

From an open letter written in March by Bernhard Paul, founder and director of Germany’s Circus Roncalli, to Peer Steinbrück, the Social Democratic candidate for German chancellor, who in February…

How to Make Your Own AR-15

by Dan Baum,

The gun Congress can’t ban

Instant City

by Nicolai Ouroussoff,

China’s Wild West gets tamed

Long Division

by Vanessa Gregory,

A blueprint for the failure of low-income housing

Promised Land

by Glenn Cheney,

Will Brazil’s rural poor ever inherit the earth?

The Shining Path

by Jay Kirk,

Room 237 and the Kubrick cult

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Experts were unable to explain the washing ashore of a thousand starving sea-lion pups in California; thousands of dead prawns and crabs in Chile; hundreds of dead puffins in eastern…

Power Rangers