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Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

The Improbability Party

by Walter Kirn,

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about…

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

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…

Nor a Lender Be

by Thomas Frank,

Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan

Down the Tube

by Andrew Cockburn,

Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex

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by Justin Sullivan,

The Trouble with Iowa

by Richard Manning,

Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses