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Social conditions

A Prayer’s Chance

The scandal of mental health in West Africa

The Mothers

by Kiana Hayeri,

The Untouchables

From incidents since 2011 in which the use of force by Chicago police officers was deemed reasonable or justifiable by supervisors or the city’s Independent Police Review Authority. The incidents…

Exodus

by Dapper Bruce Lafitte,

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

The Boy Without a Country

by Jessica Weisberg,

Tokyo’s painful exclusion of immigrants

Remains of the Day

by Christa Wolf, Katy Derbyshire,

By Christa Wolf (1929–2011), from One Day a Year, a journal that she kept each September 27 from 1960 until her death. The most recent volume will be published next month by…

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Family Values

by Masha Gessen,

Mapping the spread of antigay ideology

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

Over the River

by Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint