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Putin’s counter-revolution

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Snowden says he reported NSA surveillance concerns to superiors before leaks

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US imposes visa restrictions on Russian officials

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Crimea part of Russia, local parliament declares

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N+1 on the Ukraine, Putin, and the West

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Putin rules out war

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A Pussy Riot member’s take on Ukraine: Russia’s acting like it’s 1968 all over

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The Ukraine crisis: a primer

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Live alerts: Crimea crisis

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Putin readies tanks as Ukraine struggles to form government

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U.S. signals it stands behind new Ukrainian leadership

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Ukrainian MPs vote to send fugitive president to The Hague for trial

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The fall of El Chapo, drug kingpin to the world

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Majority of Irish voters support same-sex marriage

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Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine

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Protesters and riot police clash in Ukraine; nine dead

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Pussy Riot members arrested in Sochi

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Spying by NSA ally entangled US law firm

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Italy’s prime minister to resign

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A breakthrough in nuclear fusion

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Drone strikes ordered on basis of SIM card activity. A worrying look at NSA tactics 

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First Look Media to launch next week

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New York’s top regulator orders banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, to hand over documents as part of investigation into sharing currency information among traders

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Afghanistan president has been talking with Taliban for months

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Did Chris Christie, a campaign micromanager, really not know about the bridge closing?

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The Haunted Life, Kerouac’s lost novella

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Hedge-fund activist Daniel Loeb’s attack on Sotheby’s

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Darwin in Arabia

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Modernism and dance

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Oscar roundup

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Philip Roth: On life as a writer and as a retired writer

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Photos: Young and old swap outfits

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The McConaughey Model

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Coen brothers’ latest film left out in the cold

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German burnout

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Heironymus Bosch’s Butt Song

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Penguin India recalls book on Hindus

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CIA involvement in the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop

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The end of the Wilson Quarterly

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Is Amazon bad for books?

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Meet Walter Blanco: Breaking Bad in Spanish

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Remnick on Putin’s games

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David Cronenberg on the beetle and the fly

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New poems by Sappho

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History of the selfie

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In remembrance: Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Will Self on Patrick Keiller

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RIP Pete Seeger. Read this 2006 New Yorker profile of the folk singer-activist

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Thora Birch, Hollywood’s erstwhile darling

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The march to the world’s most catastrophic war

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Peter Lanza, father of the Sandy Hook killer, searches for answers

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Spike Lee, gentrification, and the monster that ate New York

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Did this man invent bitcoins?

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When may I shoot a student?

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A new statue honoring abolitionist slave Denmark Vesey sparks controversy in Charleston, SC

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How America fell out of love with orange juice

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A tech entrepreneur on the future of the news business

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Movie studio proves it still does not understand the internet

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Creating a star to solve our energy needs

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Mary Beard: The public voice of women

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Who was Joe Gould’s sugar momma?

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James Wood: On not going home

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SHoP Architects is changing the way we build buildings

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USA defeats Russia in ice hockey thriller

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The Vampire Squid strikes again: The mega banks’ most devious scam yet

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How to build a perfect refugee camp

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Can Wendy Davis win the Texas governor’s seat as a Democrat?

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Heroin in Wisconsin

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NFL prospect Michael Sam comes out to the world. Will the league embrace its first openly gay player?

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Behind the scenes on the bottom rung of professional tennis

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Jerome Groopman on marijuana legalization

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How bad’s the scene in Sochi?

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The scientist who took on a major herbicide manufacturer

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Ghosts of the tsunami

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100 years too late, Niall Ferguson advises Britain to stay out of World War I

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