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Veep Stakes

October 15, 2012Steve CollOctober 15, 2012In 2011, as the Presidential campaign got under way, Paul Ryan posed for Time, curling barbells during a P90X workout, with his baseball cap turned backward...

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A Foreign-Policy Mystery: Six Areas the Debate Missed

October 26, 2012Steve CollOctober 26, 2012The final Presidential debate, devoted to foreign policy, was the most reasoned and the least polluted by rehearsed talking points of the three. The format and...

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New York's Next Extremist Shock

November 1, 2012Steve CollNovember 1, 2012New York can be as compelling in a hurricane as it is on a starry Saturday night. Some of the thrill of living in the city arises from its combination of...

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How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz—And Us

January 16, 2013Tim WuJanuary 16, 2013Tomorrow is the funeral for Aaron Swartz, the programmer and sometime activist who killed himself last Friday, while facing federal trial. No one knows, or will...

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Terrible News About Carbon and Climate Change

May 12, 2013Nicholas ThompsonMay 12, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/terrible-news-about-carbon-and-climate-change.html

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Three Trials for Murder

November 11, 2011Nicholas SchmidleNovember 11, 2011URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_schmidle

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Bring Up the Bodies

May 6, 2013Nicholas SchmidleMay 6, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/06/130506fa_fact_schmidle

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In the Crosshairs

June 3, 2013Nicholas SchmidleJune 3, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/06/03/130603fa_fact_schmidle

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The President and the Press

June 10, 2013Steve CollJune 10, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/06/10/130610taco_talk_coll

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The Moral Dilemmas of Doctors During Disaster | The New Yorker

September 13, 2013In the late summer of 2005, the waters loosed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina laid siege to New Orleans. At Memorial Medical Center, the power and then the backup generators failed,...

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States of Health

September 7, 2013Atul A. GawandeSeptember 7, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/10/07/131007taco_talk_gawande

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How Cold War Game Theory Can Resolve the Shutdown

October 7, 2013Nicholas ThompsonOctober 7, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/10/how-cold-war-game-theory-can-resolve-the-shutdown.html

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A Very Rare Book

December 9, 2013Nicholas SchmidleDecember 9, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_schmidle

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Shopgirls

December 23, 2013 The art of selling lingerie. Katherine ZoepfDecember 23, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_zoepf

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Shopgirls

December 23, 2013 The art of selling lingerie. Katherine ZoepfDecember 23, 2013URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_zoepf

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A Saudi Woman Is Threatened After Tweeting About Beards

February 19, 2014Katherine ZoepfFebruary 19, 2014URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/02/a-saudi-woman-tweets-about-beards-and-is-threatened.html

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We Need Real Competition, Not a Cable-Internet Monopoly | The New Yorker

February 13, 2014These figures are taken from an informative 2012 book, “The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use ‘Plain English’ to Rob You Blind,” by David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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How to Survive an Internet Apocalypse

April 12, 2014The goal was to create a “wireless mesh network”—a collective of radio nodes, each one equally responsible for routing the communications of connected users. The Practocalypse version of...

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Cheap Words | The New Yorker

February 17, 2014Barry Lynn, a market-policy expert at the New America Foundation, said, “It’s one of the main factors that’s led to massive consolidation.” Judge Cote’s opinion described Amazon’s...

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Crime Fiction | The New Yorker

July 29, 2014Nicholas SchmidleJuly 29, 2014 Did the Chicago police coerce witnesses into pinpointing the wrong man for murder?URL:  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/crime-fiction

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