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Missouri legislature removes nearly all restrictions on carrying firearms
The American Zika outbreak
U.S. to Stop Using Private Prisons
Want to be happy? Ignore the news.
The DNC leaks and how the Democratic primary was slanted toward Clinton
The regrets of Donald Trump’s ghostwriter
The Dallas shooter and the NRA’s bogus insurgency theory
Baghdad blast kills 140. Third ISIS global attack in three days
UK votes to pull out of European Union. UK is diminished, its politics poisoned.
Omar Mateen killed 50 in Orlando gay night club. Most devastating mass shooting in American history. Pledges fealty to ISIS before being killed.
The Greatest
Brazil’s horrible year
Why the neocons hate Trump
The Donald wins Indiana; Cruz bows out of race
Andrew Sullivan on Donald Trump
At least 350 dead after earthquake in Ecuador
Goldman Sachs admits it defrauded investors during the financial crisis
Operation Trump: Inside the most unorthodox of political campaigns
Sanders and the superdelegates
How ISIS built its terror infrastructure in an unvigilant Europe
Terrorist attack strikes Brussels. At least 34 dead. ISIS claims responsibility
What happens after Russia’s withdrawal from Syria
Republicans created dysfunction in Washington. Now they’re paying for it
The dangerous election
Maya Lin’s genius
Howard Stern, America’s best interviewer?
Why Joyce’s Ulysses no longer shocks us
This movie was literally written by an algorithm
Prague’s giant Kafka head
Wittgenstein’s handles
Post-Soviet life
Botticelli in Hell
DeLillo’s Zero K
Clive James binge-watches Game of Thrones
David Foster Wallace’s perfect game
The unknown Dorothy Parker
The Scottish War poets
RIP Merle Haggard
RIP Jim Harrison
RIP Phife Dawg
A different Darkness at Noon
Henry VIII’s closest friend
When Samuel Beckett tried to capture the power of movies
On Lesley Branch and women travel writers
Wittgenstein, bewitched
What went wrong at St. Mark’s Bookshop?
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest at 20
Why we loved Abe Vigoda
Apocalypse tourism: global warming means the Northwest Passage is finally open, and you can travel it in a cruise ship
Hampton Creek’s fake mayo miracle
Get off the treadmill. Living well in the age of plenty
Frauke Petry: the new star of Germany’s far right
Detroit metro schools and the new white flight
How soon until New York City sinks?
This wine scammer stole $45 million from wealthy bankers
Why it’s better to raise children without religion
Gun deaths in America, a fivethirtyeight analysis
Happy retirement Tim Duncan
The double standard of the side hustle
ISIS cornered
Edward Snowden’s peripatetic travels as a robot
The terror of guns in the US
How to understand ISIS
Naomi Klein’s Edward W. Said London lecture on climate change
The wars of Vladimir Putin
Why so many smart people aren’t happy
The end of code
Trucking: How one of America’s steadiest jobs turned into one of its most grueling
The cure for fear?
Edward Snowden: Whistleblowing as political resistance
Tiger Woods’ weird obsession with the Navy Seals
Bitcoin and the future of money
From the archives (2014): Vote no to the Clinton dynasty!
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