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Irish Goodbye

From the 5,782 statutes passed in Ireland between 1385 and 1821 that were revoked in July under the country’s Statute Law Revision Act 2015.

Lifting as We Climb

by Randall Kennedy,

A progressive defense of respectability politics

Getting Jobbed

by Virginia Sole-Smith,

The real face of welfare reform

A Polite Coup

by Ian Buruma,

Thailand's king is in declining health; Ian Buruma examines why the country so often finds itself under military rule

In the Shadow of the Storm

by Rebecca Solnit,

Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, listening to…

The Transhuman Condition

by John Markoff,

By John Markoff, from Machines of Loving Grace, out this month from Ecco Books. Markoff has been a technology and business reporter for the New York Times since 1988. Bill…

And Red All Over

by William J. Maxwell,

From the FBI file on Lloyd Louis Brown, who wrote the prison novel Iron City (1951), edited several Communist journals, and coauthored Paul Robeson’s autobiography, Here I Stand. The file…

Travel Day

Photographs of airports by twenty photographers, with an essay by Geoff Dyer

Fugue State

by Sarah A. Topol,

The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine

A Polite Coup

by Ian Buruma,

Why one of Asia’s most open societies keeps turning to military rule

Shooting Down Man the Hunter

by Rebecca Solnit,

Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It’s a story…

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Irish Goodbye

Lifting as We Climb

Getting Jobbed

A Polite Coup

In the Shadow of the Storm

The Transhuman Condition

And Red All Over

Travel Day

Fugue State

A Polite Coup

Shooting Down Man the Hunter

June 2015

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