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A ferry tragedy and the undoing of a South Korean tycoon
Why ISIS won’t be able to spread out of Iraq
Israeli strike on school kills 15, wounds 200
Arizona execution lasts two hours
The London Review of Books on Israel’s war on Gaza
Gaza crisis: live updates
Israel kills four Palestinian boys playing on Gaza Beach
Why doesn’t Obama close Gitmo?
Truvada and the promise of gay sex without fear
The battle for Baghdad
Children at the border
Syrian opposition meets to choose new leader
Israel makes arrests in wake of killing of Palestinian teenager
Worth a read: The Kentucky gay marriage ruling
The very bad Supreme Court ruling on Hobby Lobby
The enemy of my enemy: As ISIS rises, old antagonists ally
US Supreme Court defends cell phone privacy
US patent office cancels Redskins trademark registration
Argentina’s president says country will ignore US court rulings and won’t repay debt to creditors
Elections and negotiations won’t stem Colombia’s violence
Iraqi army loses ground to militants
House majority leader Eric Cantor loses primary race to underfunded Tea Partier
Chris Christe backers awarded $223 million tax break to build New Jersey mall
Dan Marino files concussion lawsuit against NFL
Bowe Bergdahl and the Guantanamo Paradox
Fear, a rediscovered novel that’s the Catch-22 of World War I
Weird Al Yankovic tops the charts for the first time ever
Tom Bissell on William T. Vollmann
The Ivy League is antithetic to American democratic values
From the archives: Franzen’s ugly Americans
Margaret Atwood: Remembering Nadine Gordimer
Kant, duties, and confusion
The mellow agility of Clifford Brown
Emily Gould finds her cat
Benjamin Kunkel on Piketty’s Capital
Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
Citizen Bezos
A new biography of Stephen Crane
Johannesburg: city of gold
The genius of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Abraham Lincoln, inventor
Soccer is a lie: Eduardo Sacheri’s Paper in the Wind
The philosophical joys of walking
A type house divided
Writing for a free Chechnya
Maya Angelou dies
This barbecue sauce formulated by a computer is supposed to be delicious
Camera phones and memories
Capturing the life of intellectuals
Larry McMurtry: Lost booksellers of New York
Bitcoin for the financially underserved
The caveman diet and its environmental impacts
Plastic to pavement in India
Women and the Civil Rights Act
The pope and the pederasts
Guinea worm nears extinction
Farm of the future debuts in Japan
A Goldman Sachs self-proclaimed ethicist has started a company to provide usurious loans to desperate small businesses
Can plankton help reverse climate change?
Solar has already won the energy wars
Prudent inaction by Obama in the Middle East?
New York City real estate is the new Swiss bank account for wealthy (often shady) foreigners
Is NSA surveillance mastermind Keith Alexander selling US secrets to Wall Street?
How the Chilean miners survived
What’s the matter with Eastern Kentucky?
Inequality begins at birth
SWAT teams and the drug war
Sex and Silicon Valley
Airbnb’s battle for New York
Feds leak list of bitcoin bidders
The American passion for tyrants. David Rieff reviews William Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
What the theory of innovative disruption gets wrong
Chris Hedges, plagiarist
After decades of liberal policies, Rhode Island in shambles
N+1 on net neutrality
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