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United States

El Bloqueo

by Joy Gordon,

The Cuban embargo continues

Death of a General

by Sune Engel Rasmussen,

The American military’s failure to prevent an insider attack

My Perfect Season

by Mark Edmundson,

Playing it safe in the Pee Wee League

Europe’s Hamilton Moment

by Harper’s Magazine,

The euro and its discontents

How to Make Your Own AR-15

by Dan Baum,

A gunman kills 49 people with an AR-15 assault rifle at an Orlando nightclub; Dan Baum investigates whether gun-control laws could ever stop the weapon from proliferating

The Improbability Party

by Walter Kirn,

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about…

History of Violence

by Peter Manseau,

From Melancholy Accidents, by Peter Manseau. The book compiles colonial and early American newspaper reports of accidental gun deaths and was published in March by Melville House. Manseau is a…

Beating Around the Bush

by Dorothea Tanning,

By Dorothea Tanning, from a letter written to Muriel Streeter in May 1947 and published in the most recent issue of A Public Space. Tanning was an artist and writer. Streeter…

Hashtag Prescription

by Helen Ouyang,

The hidden cost of crowd-sourcing a cure

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

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