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“No to Profit”


Pinochet privatized Chile’s higher education and made it the most expensive in the world. Now Chileans are fighting to get it back.

Lili Loofbourow


Praying to Allah on Bastille Day


It’s as if the plane hits an invisible iceberg. Your new Turkish friend starts praying in what you assume is Arabic.

Kate Korman
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Against the Brahmins


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an interview by Wajahat Ali

A More Ordinary Poet


With Emily Dickinson, the challenge is to understand a flesh-and-blood woman whose life took place on paper.

Gillian Osborne


Martial Flaw


Republican hawks think Tsarnaev should have been held as an enemy combatant. Their views are wrong and dangerous.

Elizabeth Goitein


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Why are human beings becoming more intelligent?
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Founding Firearms

Originalism and the Second Amendment
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Exhuming Neruda

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Stephen Phelan

Lives of the Moral Saints

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Joe Fassler


Tayopa

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Ben C. Stroud


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Obama won despite low voter participation
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Big Organic

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Wenonah Hauter


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Dara Wier

2013 “Discovery” Poetry Contest

Winning poems by Catherine Blauvelt, Julia Guez, Raena Shirali, and Erika L. Sánchez

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Jane Miller

The Boy Under the Car

John Freeman

National Poetry Month 2013

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Lolita in Japan

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Alan A. Stone


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