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Our Man in Jabberlon

From a September 12, 2012, post by The Mittani, a member of the Goonswarm alliance in the role-playing game Eve Online, on a website that provides news about the fictional…

Martyr Complex

From emails received by Michael D’Antuono in response to his painting The Truth, which depicts President Barack Obama in a crucifixion-like pose and wearing a crown of thorns. D’Antuono originally…

This Land Is Not Your Land

by Ted Genoways,

Deciding who belongs in America

An Obsessive Embrace

by Lyle Rexer,

Garry Winogrand's late sprint

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by Roberto Parada,

America Is Having the Wrong Fiscal Argument

by Jeff Madrick,

The question should be whether to cut the deficit right now, not how

Trading for Jobs

by Jeff Madrick,

As President Obama begins his second term, our gross domestic product is in recovery mode. But the jobs market is still in a Great Recession. Unemployment hovers stubbornly around 8…

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by Asaf Hanuka,

Second Chance

by Thomas Frank,

Inauguration Day is upon us. And it seems like only yesterday that the colossal, overheating machinery of democracy, which had been running in high gear for almost two years, finally…

Class Struggle

From almost 2,000 comments about student loans sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and released on its website last June. Americans currently owe more than $1 trillion in outstanding…

Sentimental Medicine

by Eula Biss,

Why we still fear vaccines

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