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Political aspects

Down the Tube

Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex

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Left of Bernie

You say you want a revolution

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Bombast Bursting in Air

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

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Captive Markets

Why we won’t get prison reform

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Wrong Prescription?

The failed promise of the Affordable Care Act

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Fugue State

The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine

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The Joke

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

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Captive Market

Why we won’t get prison reform

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Stonewalled

From a June 30, 1987, memo to President Ronald Reagan from Gary L. Bauer, Reagan’s chief domestic policy adviser. In July of 1987, Reagan appointed Frank Lilly, an openly gay…

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