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The Immunity Doctrine

by Julia Harte,

Can officials be held liable for the suffering they inflict?

Safety in Numbers

by Gary Greenberg,

The mathematics of predicting war

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by Taylor Callery,

Facing the Furies

by Rebecca Solnit,

In 1979, a catchy Kenny Rogers song called “Coward of the County” made it to the top of the country charts. It’s about a man named Tommy, whose father, a…

The New Climate

by Bruno Latour,

By Bruno Latour, from The Great Regression, a collection of essays edited by Heinrich Geiselberger that will be published next month by Polity. Latour is a philosopher and the author, most…

Queer Theory

From a CIA memorandum entitled “Homosexual Investigations” that was written in 1980 for the purpose of investigating colleagues. The document was published in March by Muckrock.

A Dream Preferred

by Anaïs Nin,

By Anaïs Nin (1903–77), from diary entries written in March 1947 in New York City. Trapeze, an unexpurgated section of Nin’s diaries spanning from 1947 to 1955, was published this…

Snowden’s Box

by Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge,

The human network behind the biggest leak of all

Paper Pushers

by Studs Terkel, Daniel Ellsberg,

studs terkel: Your name is known to quite a few Americans these days. You let the country and the world know about a series of documents called the Pentagon Papers.…

American Duce

by Robert O. Paxton,

Is Donald Trump a fascist or a plutocrat?

Bee-Brained

by Vauhini Vara,

Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community

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