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PETA Peeve

From a complaint filed in June against the State of North Carolina by PETA and other plaintiffs, including Beth A. Sparks, an adviser to the National Opossum Society who “has…

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

Captive Markets

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

Irish Goodbye

From the 5,782 statutes passed in Ireland between 1385 and 1821 that were revoked in July under the country’s Statute Law Revision Act 2015.

The Nixon of the North

by Heather Mallick,

How Stephen Harper ruined Canada

A Polite Coup

by Ian Buruma,

Thailand's king is in declining health; Ian Buruma examines why the country so often finds itself under military rule

Modest Proposals

by Asma Ghribi,

From a list of rules the Islamic State has imposed within territories it has claimed since 2013. Translated from the Arabic by Asma Ghribi.

Gangs of Karachi

by Matthieu Aikins,

Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities

The Trouble with Israel

by Bernard Avishai,

Netanyahu takes the country to the brink

House of Fire

by Nell Freudenberger,

Can India’s Parsis survive their own success?