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The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Before the Deluge

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How Washington sealed Puerto Rico’s fate

Notes to Self

by Ronald C. White,

Lincoln’s private thoughts on fate, failure, slavery, and belief

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by Gesche Jaeger,

Swap Meet

by Andrew Cockburn,

Wall Street’s war on the Volcker Rule

On the Corner of Myth and Main

by Walter Kirn,

There was a time when I didn’t know that I lived in Middle America. When I was very young, growing up in eastern Minnesota, I thought I was just an…

Chronicle of Dire Education

From news reports of homework given to students in US public schools since 2011.

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Terms of Surrender

by Henry Lewis Stimson,

It was in the fall of 1941 that the question of atomic energy was first brought directly to my attention. At that time President Roosevelt appointed a committee to advise…

Crossing Guards

by Matt Mossman,

When private ownership of a bridge gets old

Framing The Shadows

by Vince Passaro,

The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

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