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Presidents

An official photograph of President Obama

by Pete Souza,

Unread at Any Speed

by Ralph Nader,

By Ralph Nader, from Return to Sender, a collection of 115 unanswered letters Nader sent to George W. Bush and Barack Obama between 2000 and 2015, out this month from Seven Stories Press.

Front Cover

by Jonathan Ernst,

Stop Hillary!

by Doug Henwood,

Vote no to a Clinton dynasty

Snark de Triomphe

by Raphaël Meltz,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

From insults reportedly made to French presidents, collected in De voyou à pov’ con, by Raphaël Meltz, published in 2012 by Robert Laffont. (See page 38 for an Annotation on…

Après Mots, Le Déluge

by Kabir Chibber,

Fighting for the right to insult the French president

The Awakening

by Michael Ames,

Ron Paul’s generational movement

Team America

by Thomas Frank,

There have been an estimated 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln; like the lives of the wealthy and the secrets of self-improvement, a fascination with the Great Emancipator is an…

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by Asaf Hanuka,

Second Chance

by Thomas Frank,

Inauguration Day is upon us. And it seems like only yesterday that the colossal, overheating machinery of democracy, which had been running in high gear for almost two years, finally…

The Longest Days

by Richard Burton,

From actor Richard Burton’s diary entries recording a trip with his wife Elizabeth Taylor to visit Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in preparation for The Battle of Sutjeska, a 1973…