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It Takes a Villa

From testimony given in January at a Senate subcommittee hearing to examine spending within the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, a division of the Department of Defense that…

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Emerald Sea
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The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt

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Down the Tube
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Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex

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The Neoliberal Arts
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How college sold its soul to the market

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Written Off
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From a list of gifts rejected by organizations since 2010. Compiled by Nicholas Nardini.

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21st Century Limited
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The lost glory of America’s railroads

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The Near-Death of Grand Central Terminal
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And how it foretold the 2008 financial crisis

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Sins of the Fatcat
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Bob Ivry’s guide for tracking down the live villains and unburied bodies of the 2008 crash

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Course Corrections
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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.…

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A Bit of Good News
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It’s dangerous to express optimism about the economy these days. Europe’s financial markets remain fragile. China, which supports much of the world’s economy through imports, is too dependent on highly…

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Class Struggle

From almost 2,000 comments about student loans sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and released on its website last June. Americans currently owe more than $1 trillion in outstanding…

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