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United States

Fifty shades of gray

by Dan Halpern,

Mitt Romney as bad fiction

The Changeling

by David Samuels,

The content of Obama's character

Stink different

by Nate Hill,

Chore List of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut,

From a January 26, 1947, contract between Kurt Vonnegut and his pregnant wife, Jane, to whom he had been married for sixteen months. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, edited by Dan Wakefield,…

Compromising Positions

by Thomas Frank,

Let us review. Barack Obama, who was lifted to the presidency four years ago on a great wave of progressive fantasy, likes to say that the national budget is like…