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In Iraq, armed men believed to be working for the Ministry of Defense kidnapped an Iranian diplomat, a car bomb killed at least 33 policemen, a political officer affiliated with…

Weekly Review

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 The U.S. director of national intelligence released a declassified version of a new National…

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by Miriam Markowitz,

The Cloaca Maxima, 1872 The 110th Congress convened on Capitol Hill, and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California kicked off her tenure as America’s first female speaker of the House with…

Weekly Review

by Gemma Sieff,

In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers, the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the…

String theory

by Theodore Ross,

Building a 4,000-acre house in Manhattan

Blowback

by James, Jr. Sanders,

Toilet study, Brooklyn Navy Yard

by Stephen Wilkes,

Beauty and the beast

Art by David Holmes,

How’m I doing?

by Matthew Bakkom,

Going by the Book

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Weekly Review

by Theodore Ross,

President George W. Bush officially replaced the phrase “stay the course” in Iraq with “We will stay in Iraq,” and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted he never agreed to…

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Beauty and the beast

How’m I doing?

Going by the Book

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