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When Bill de Blasio won the New York City mayoral election with 73 percent of the vote, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was the start of something big. For more…

Tears for Fears

by Thomas Frank,

One of the many poignant glimpses of midcentury America afforded me by a fiftieth-anniversary reading of the Warren Report was the story of an ephemeral conservative organization called the American…

Now You Sisi

by Ahmed Ould Meiloud,

From a video of senior Egyptian army officers at a meeting held by General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, leaked last October by the Islamist website Rassd News Network; the meeting is thought…

Saving Private Ryan’s Sweatpants

From a list of more than 100,000 items in storage at the U.S. Army Historical Clearinghouse facility in Anniston, Alabama, released in September by the Army’s Center of Military History…

The Pious Spy

by Mujib Mashal,

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

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Nothing Left

What Is Literature?

Sochi’s Troubled Neighbor

Portrait of a Township

Waiting State

Tunnel Vision

Change in the Air

Tears for Fears

Now You Sisi

Saving Private Ryan’s Sweatpants

The Pious Spy

January 2014

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