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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…

Fifty shades of gray

by Dan Halpern,

Mitt Romney as bad fiction

The Changeling

by David Samuels,

The content of Obama's character

Regime Changes

by Lamis Omar,

From emails sent last year, purportedly to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, by Lamis Omar, a Ph.D. student working as his translator. The emails were among hundreds recovered by WikiLeaks and…

Compromising Positions

by Thomas Frank,

Let us review. Barack Obama, who was lifted to the presidency four years ago on a great wave of progressive fantasy, likes to say that the national budget is like…

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Art by Kevin Sprouls,

Once More Unto the Breach

by Philip Gourevitch,

The other winner of France’s election

It’s a Rich Man’s World

by Thomas Frank,

How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates

Presidents

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Team America

[untitled]

Second Chance

The Longest Days

Fifty shades of gray

The Changeling

Regime Changes

Compromising Positions

Untitled

Once More Unto the Breach

It’s a Rich Man’s World

April 2012

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