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Other People’s Children

When we are asked if we like children, we are used to saying that it depends upon the child; that we like some children, just as we like some grown…

Fifty Years Under a Cloud

by Tom Engelhardt,

The uneasy search for our atomic history

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by Taylor Callery,

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

by Rebecca Solnit,

On April 24, 1916 — Easter Monday — Irish republicans in Dublin and a handful of other places staged an armed rebellion against British occupation. At the time, the British…

Unhackable

by Paul Wachter,

The quest for an email the government can’t read

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

Certain Age

by Ottessa Moshfegh, Kristine McKenna,

Dialogue

Body Politic

by Eileen Myles,

From a mailing sent out by Eileen Myles in October 1992 as part of a presidential campaign in which she ran as an “openly female” write-in candidate. Myles is a…

Crossing the Valley

by Walter Kirn,

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

Legalize It All

by Dan Baum,

How to win the war on drugs

Nor a Lender Be

by Thomas Frank,

Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan

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