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Politics and government

Wilt Thou not Walk

I never knew just when I passed the border into Germany because no frontier official stopped me. I thought it odd that there should be a border warfare so recently…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

In Hayange

by Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau,

In March 2014, Marine Le Pen’s National Front took charge of eleven municipalities, among them Hayange, a city of 16,000 in northeastern France, where the unemployment rate rose to 15…

Body Politic

by Eileen Myles,

From a mailing sent out by Eileen Myles in October 1992 as part of a presidential campaign in which she ran as an “openly female” write-in candidate. Myles is a…

Crossing the Valley

by Walter Kirn,

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

The Trouble with Iowa

by Richard Manning,

Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses

Disunified Front

by Charles Glass,

The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

Left of Bernie

by Garret Keizer,

You say you want a revolution

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

by Art Spiegelman,

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

Invisible City

by Justin E. H. Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from a work in progress. Smith’s fourth book, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (Princeton), will be published in June. At the end of August, the oldest…

The Counterparty