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Keen On America
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How a Turkey Voted for Xmas: Ricardo Semler on Why One Boss Wants the End of All Bosses.
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Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: Is Ben Barnes the Last Moderate Texan Democrat?
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The American Way of Violence: Mike McIntire on Guns, Greed, and a Daily Trickle of Bloodshed
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The Seduction of the American Mind: Emily Eakin on Her Life in French Theory
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A $14 Billion Glitter Glue Gospel: Michael Blanding on the Wealthiest Christian Nationalist Family You've Never Heard Of
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Homer's Hollywood Odyssey: Joel Christensen on How Christopher Nolan Gave Us the Odysseus We Deserve
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Who Owns Intelligence? The Smart Wealth of Nations
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Trump Points, Justice Shoots: Jonathan Rauch Looks Back (Without Anger) at the First Six Months of 2026
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We All Hallucinate Reality: Turi Munthe on Why We Think What We Think
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Who's Addicted to Addiction? Sally Satel on the Social Media Trials & America's Therapeutic Culture
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The Art Restorer Who Came in From the Cold: Daniel Silva on Gabriel Allon, the Truest Fake Spy
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A Time for Monsters: David Masciotra Looks Back in Anger at the First Six Months of 2026 in America
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Ten Days That Didn’t Shake the World: Is it 1905 in AI Time?
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From Istanbul With Love: Kaya Genç on How Turkey is Watching Trump's America
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The End of the End of Geography: Mehran Gul on Why Innovation is Happening in America & China — but Nowhere Else
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The Glory of Small Things: Ian Bogost on How To Be Enchanted by Diet Coke Cans & Plane Tickets
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How the Democrats Screwed Bernie: Tad Devine on the 2016 Campaign, the Rigged Economy, and What’s at Stake in 2028
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A Sudden Flicker of Light: Has David Thomson Fallen Out of Love With the Movies?
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Was the Colonization of North America a Genocidal Project? David Silverman on the Tragic Fate of Native Americans
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Universal Basic Capitalism: The Next American Revolution Or More Trickle Down Economics?
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The United States of Oddity: Madeleine Schwartz on How the World Sees America at 250
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America's Grand Faustian Bargain: Alexander Mikaberidze on How the Louisiana Purchase Made the United States
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Dear America — Happy Fucking Birthday: Christopher Hooks on an Exhausted United States at 250
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How We Disappear: Thomas Mullaney’s All-Too-Personal History of Information
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If I Perish, I Perish: Katie Gaddini on the Army of Esthers Powering the American Right
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Russian-American Confessions: Jamison Firestone on Putin’s Russia and a Criminal American Dad
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The Apotheosis of Donald Trump? Peter Wehner on Madness, Mayhem and How Trump Eludes Shakespearean Tragedy
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Payback’s a Bitch: AI Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Fake Andrew Keen, and America’s Inevitable Decline
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Down the Democratic Drain: Justin Gest on How Migration Is Unintentionally Strengthening Authoritarianism Around the World
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Is London Really Falling? Patrick Radden Keefe's Search for Truth in the Most Invisible of Cities
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The Best and Worst Thing About America: Konstanty Gebert on the Interlibrary Loan and Yalta
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We No Longer Dream of the United States: Bartosz Wieliński on America, Poland, and the Suicide of a Superpower
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Let’s Agree to Disagree: Maciej Kisilowski on How to Save Democracy From Deplorables on All Sides
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Life After GDP: Tim Jackson Returns to 1968 to Excavate a Post-Capitalist Future
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Middlewomen: Laura McGrath on the 25 People Who Control American Fiction
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What Makes Us Human? Kate O’Neill on the H Word, Verbal Slop, and the Meaning of Tech Humanism
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Never Invite Sally Quinn: The Illustrious Washington Hostess on Ben Bradlee, Jill Biden and the Sexiness of Silence
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Gerontocracy in America: Samuel Moyn on How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth
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The Trouble with Trillionaires: Mordecai Kurz on Capitalism, Democracy, and the Second Gilded Age
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The Vanishing Black Family: Delano Squires on Marriage, Moynihan, and the Crisis in Black America
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A Century of Orations: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Listens to 2,500 Voices of the American Revolution
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Up to the Stars and Down into the Gutter: Elon Musk's Ascent/Descent to SpaceX and White Nationalist Violence
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No Statecraft for Old Men: Jack Watling on the New Rules of Power in a Chaotic World
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The David Frum Show: Frum on Gatsby, Trump the Fascoid and What It Means to Be an American
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Save San Francisco’s Soul: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay
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Brooklyn Al Primo Posto: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, the Mafia and the Gowanus Canal
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Trump Finally Gets the Priceless Book He Deserves: Ben Fountain on How Rasputin Swims the Potomac
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The Unexceptional Exceptionalism of the United States: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy
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The Jeffrey Epstein of Antiquities: Matthew Campbell on the Man Who Got Away With Stealing the Gods,
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D-Day for AI: How to Create an End Game That Will Benefit Everyone
