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Social conditions

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

With Child

by Kiera Feldman,

The right to choose in Rapid City

Coming Apart

by Rebecca Solnit,

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

Escape from The Caliphate

by Jennifer Percy,

Rescuing and ransoming Christian hostages in Iraq

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

The Great Republican Land Heist

by Christopher Ketcham,

Seven militants are acquitted in takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge; Christopher Ketcham traces the history of the Bureau of Land Management

Psychedelic Trap

by Walter Kirn,

Driving into Cleveland on a warm July Saturday to secure my press credentials for the Republican National Convention, I get a text from a friend in California, a guy in…

Division Street

by Robert Gumpert, Rebecca Solnit,

Chances are that you are living the good life, at least in the most fundamental sense. You have the liberty to leave your home and the security of a home…

Acceptable Losses

by Andrew Cockburn,

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen

American Idle

by Mark Greif,

By Mark Greif, from Against Everything, a collection of his essays that will be published in September by Pantheon. Greif is the author of The Age of the Crisis of…

Rational Numbers

by Joe Nicholson Jr.,

Several days after I arrived in Havana I asked my host why all the toilet seats were missing. “We don’t use them here,” he replied, as if it were an…