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History

Fifty Years Under a Cloud

The uneasy search for our atomic history

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

On April 24, 1916 — Easter Monday — Irish republicans in Dublin and a handful of other places staged an armed rebellion against British occupation. At the time, the British…

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

The Separating Sickness

by Rebecca Solnit,

Five hundred family members of leprosy patients sue Japan; Rebecca Solnit explores how leprosy teaches empathy

Emerald Sea

by Robert P. Baird,

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

Suing for Justice

by Ralph Nader,

Your lawsuits are good for America

A Foreign Cause

by William Deresiewicz,

Why the Spanish Civil War feels so distant

Weary Oracle

by Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

We Out Here

by Wesley Yang,

By Wesley Yang. Yang has written for New York magazine, the New York Times, and n+1. He is at work on his first book.

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

by Elizabeth Royte,

From behind a parapet on the tower of Litchfield Villa, the Italianate mansion that marks the western edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I was barely able to make out —…