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Preaching to The Choir

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

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by Nate Kitch,

Confirmation B.S.

From a quiz drafted by the police department of Long Beach, California, and used as part of a training presentation. The quiz was cited in a report by the A.C.L.U.…

Bushwhackers

by Michael Healy-Rae,

From a meeting of Irish Parliament that took place in February. Michael Healy-Rae is a representative for Kerry South. Michael Ring is the minister of state for regional economic development.

Out With a Bang

From the website of Holy Smoke, a memorial-services company based in Alabama.

Here a City Shall be Wrought

by Daniel Brook,

What’s forgotten in China’s time-lapse urbanism

The Immunity Doctrine

by Julia Harte,

Can officials be held liable for the suffering they inflict?

Safety in Numbers

by Gary Greenberg,

The mathematics of predicting war

Newsroom of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf,

From The Charleston Bulletin Supplements, dictated by Virginia Woolf to her nephew Quentin Bell when he was a child. Between 1923 and 1927, Bell and his brother Julian hand-produced a…