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Is Paris Bathing?

From 112 Gripes About the French, a 1945 handbook for American soldiers in occupied France, edited and republished this month by the Bodleian Library.

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Happiness is a Warm Biscuit

From a glossary of terms used by three rival East Harlem street gangs, compiled by prosecutors for the April indictments of sixty-three gang members. Between October 2009 and March 2013,…

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A Very Perfect Instrument

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus

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Henry’s Farm

From documents submitted by Sue Grant, an expert witness, in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Henry’s Turkey Service, the operator of a turkey-processing plant…

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In the Republic

Photographs from Iran

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Instant City

China’s Wild West gets tamed

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Promised Land

Will Brazil’s rural poor ever inherit the earth?

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The Way of All Flesh

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse

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