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Happy Fucking Birthday

by Christopher Hooks,

An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty

State of Nature

by Gaby Del Valle,

What are conservative environmentalists fighting for?

The Plot to Save America

by Maddy Crowell,

Inside the movement to reindustrialize—and rearm—the country

On Tilt

by Jasper Craven,

America’s new gambling epidemic

Power Brokers

by Nick Bowlin,

What’s really behind your soaring utility bills

Kicking Robots

by James Vincent,

Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine

The Goon Squad

by Daniel Kolitz,

Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

Mission Impossible

by Seth Harp,

The sad state of the American armed forces

The Homemade Scholar

by Chandler Fritz,

A new frontier in American education...

Playing Dead

by Andrew Cockburn,

Do the Democrats really want reform?

Shadow of a Doubt

by Andrew Kay,

How OCD came to haunt American life

Wishful Thinking

by Amanda Chicago Lewis,

The aspirations and failures of the United Nations

Radioactive Man

by Maddy Crowell,

On (maybe) unraveling a government cover-up

The Social Turn

by Maggie Doherty,

Psychoanalysis at an inflection point

The Ghosts in the Machine

by Liz Pelly,

Spotify’s plot against musicians

Revenge Plot

by Lauren Oyler,

The GOP’s identity crisis

Demographics
vs. Destiny

by Matthew Shen Goodman,

The dawn of the Asian-American conservative

The Thin Purple Line

by Jasper Craven,

The dubious rise of the private-security industry

What Goes Up

by Andrew Lipstein,

Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?

The Life and Death of Hollywood

by Daniel Bessner,

Film and television writers face an existential threat

The Eviction Experts

by Mya Frazier,

Can a city stop a housing crisis?

Israel’s War Within

by Bernard Avishai,

On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

The Machine Breaker

by Christopher Ketcham,

Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”

Waiting for the Lights

by Amir Ahmadi Arian,

The life of an Iranian exile

At Random

by Christian Lorentzen,

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

Letterman

by Will Self,

The surgeon who signed his work

A Hole in the Head

by Zachary Siegel,

Can a brain implant treat drug addiction?

Tree Sleuths

by Lauren Markham,

How DNA is transforming the fight against illegal logging

The Victim Cloud

by Hannah Zeavin,

Gullibility in the golden age of scams

Night Shifts

by Michael W. Clune,

Can technology shape our dreams?

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