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James Gandolfini dead at 51
Michael Hastings dead at 33
Congress cuts food stamps
Brazil is burning
Three NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower Edward Snowden
Obama vows to stand by Northern Ireland as he arrives for G8 summit
US now plans to send weapons to Syrian rebels
Guantanamo a medical ethics-free zone, says an article in New England Journal of Medicine
Edward Snowden, source behind NSA surveillance revelations comes forward
Nicaragua gives Chinese firm contract to build an alternative to the Panama Canal
US soldier pleads guilty to killing 16 Afghan civilians
Hezbollah seizes Syrian town of Qusair from rebels
Bradley Manning on trial
Protests rock Turkey
Neal Ascherson reports from Berlin
500 dead in Indian heatwave. Temperatures have reached 114 Fahrenheit.
Liberty Reserve, an online currency exchange, is targeted in largest money laundering prosecution in history
Hezbollah once denied involvement in Syria. Now it considers it a point of honor
Patrick Cockburn on the war in Syria
Swedish riots continue
Pussy Riot members in hunger strike
Live updates on the devastating Oklahoma twister and recovery efforts
Hezbollah fighters joining Syrian army assault on rebel strongholds
BP and Shell in price-rigging inquiry
Declan Wash, Irish chronicler of Pakistan, expelled from the country
The Irish Times’ sarcastic Bloomsday coverage
James Salter, frotteur
Urban heroes of Istanbul
Will an art critic bring down Madison Square Garden?
Margaret Atwood on being a digital-savvy author
John Jeremiah Sullivan on James Agee’s lost manuscript
On being plagiarized
The Flamethrowers
Plimpton, the movie
Penn Station Fantasies
Christopher Ricks on Lydia Davis
Bankrupt Detroit eyes the art in its famous museum
Post-dictator Latin American fiction
How the internet is using us all
Likable characters
Sherwood Anderson and the creation of the modern short story
Is Humbert Humbert Jewish?
Michelle Rhee’s self-serving memoir
Alain de Botton’s awful book about sex
Laptop U
New Italian epics
Forgotten man James Salter remembered again
Imelda Marcos, disco queen
Salman Rushdie on censorship in China
The pleasures of Dr. Johnson
Boston Review: Waiting in Palestine
A modest proposal to trim university bureaucracies
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists releases offshore leaks database
Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rouhani
Scrubbing the Google search record for the rich and disreputable
Dear Dan Snyder: You need to rename your team
Ai Weiwei on state power and surveillance
World’s oldest man dies
New York City restaurant bans tipping
Damien Echols on how death row prepared him for life
The FBI’s war on student radicals and rise of Reagan
Homicides fall dramatically in Chicago
Why is insider trading on the rise?
Serena and Nadal win in Paris. Thoughts on French Open
The NSA’s sweeping mandate to spy on just about everybody
Women’s sexual desire is still confusing to everyone
Death looms: Charles Simic on growing old
An end to room service?
Soviet Union’s domain name, .su, lives on as haven for cybercriminals
Is the socialization of Google Maps a bad idea?
Melita Maschmann’s Fazit: I was a Nazi and here’s why
Russia’s startup village
Why do men work longer hours than women?
The riddle of consciousness
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