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States of Decay

By Ben Mauk,

I. THE HIGH DESERT Someone told me I could find a reclaimed uranium mill in Tuba City, so I drove up from Flagstaff through the Arizona badlands. The town was…

Bringing in the Beans

By Ted Genoways,

The bright-green hulk of our John Deere combine harvester crept across the field of soybeans. It was late in the day, early October, the sun low. A cloud of hulls…

House Hunters Transnational

By Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

When in Chrome

From an experiment conducted by Fixr.com, a cost-estimating website. The experiment collected the top search queries suggested by Google for the phrase “How much does * cost in [country].”

Like butterflies in the jungle

By Damon Tabor,

Numbers Racket

By Kevin Phillips,

Almost four decades have passed since the United States scrapped its last currency ties to precious metals. Our copper and nickel coinage still retains some metallic value, but not nearly…