One of the straight-up loveliest books I read this year was my friend Rebecca Dinerstein’s debut The Sunlit Night, about a young woman who moves from Manhattan to an artist colony on an ...

A state’s value of crops per person reflects the fraction of farmers in its population and illustrates the extent to which some states depend on the agricultural industry. Although the most ...

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As Segal continues to work on his series, he intends to shoot his subjects in a greater variety of constructed natural settings to enforce the idea that garbage is everywhere and that no ...

If you didn’t know what the Stop Online Piracy Act was before today, chances are you do now. WikiPedia’s blackout to protest the controversial, and now ...

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The new Supreme Court term opened this week and included arguments in the first of several death penalty cases already on the docket. At the same time, we’ve witnessed whiplash-inducing action ...

Mitt Romney famously said that income inequality is a subject best discussed in " quiet rooms." Michael Lind, author of the new book Land of Promise, says that if people of Romney’s economic ...

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Speaker B: I mean, this is the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, effectively slamming the door shut on claims of racial gerrymandering, as far as I can see, forever, and doing so in a ...