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Night Terrors

by Lucy Corin,

From reports of dreams and fantasies that Lucy Corin collected from friends and acquaintances after the 2016 presidential election. Corin is the author, most recently, of One Hundred Apocalypses and…

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Black Like Who?

by Calvin Baker,

How Obama negotiated America’s racial tightrope

Life on the Line

by Calvin G. Reid,

I was chief inmate clerk at a prison housing nearly three thousand convicts, and it was part of my duty to keep an up-to-the-minute record of the inmate population. When…

A Matter of Life

by Mary Cuddehe,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

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by Lincoln Agnew,

Mourning in America

by James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

A Peculiar Virtue

by Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson,

Only once have we elected a really ignorant man to the Presidency. Andrew Jackson was almost completely innocent of book-learning when he came to the White House. Furthermore, he was…

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

Suicide Notes

by Daphne Merkin,

By Daphne Merkin, from This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression, a memoir that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Merkin is the author of…

Ground Control

From affidavits written by people across the United States that were included in a lawsuit brought against the Department of Homeland Security by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. The lawsuit,…

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