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Animal Dewormer as Covid Preventative Animal Dewormer as Covid Preventative

Joe Maga heard the anti-vaxxers say Dewormer, not the vaccine, kills those germs. Joe Maga died of Covid. Joe is gone. His body, though, remains quite free of worms.

Sep 7, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin

In the Shadow of 9/11

In the Shadow of 9/11 In the Shadow of 9/11

Did the War on Terror put our democracy at risk—or reveal its flaws?

Sep 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn

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How Do You Tell the Story of a Fire? How Do You Tell the Story of a Fire?

A conversation with reporter Lizzie Johnson about the aftermath of wildfires and the human cost of neglected infrastructure.     

Sep 1, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Emma Hager

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The Rhetoric of Pop Psychology The Rhetoric of Pop Psychology

Jesse Singal’s takedown of trendy science aimed at fixing human behavior in The Quick Fix reveals the limits of a certain strand of journalism.

Aug 31, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Gordon

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The Appeal of Ordinary Millennial Experience The Appeal of Ordinary Millennial Experience

Rainesford Stauffer proposes a different way to understand a generation defined by precarity and overwork.

Aug 31, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Mary Retta

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Can We Live Without Twitter? Can We Live Without Twitter?

The platform has become an important space for political conversations; it is also run by a for-profit private enterprise and full of cruel trolling. Is there a way to have the goo...

Aug 30, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner

She Never Told Her Love', 1857, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 18 x 232cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8in), Photographs, Henry Peach Robinson (British, Ludlow, Shropshire 1830-1901 Tunbridge Wells, Kent), Consumed by the passion of unrequited love, a young w

Jackie Wang’s Dream Poetics Jackie Wang’s Dream Poetics

Her poetry and essays explore the personal, aesthetic, and political possibilities of dreaming.

Aug 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Thea Ballard

The Transformation of Afghanistan

The Transformation of Afghanistan The Transformation of Afghanistan

Fanatics terrorized the Afghan people. For twenty years we fought there in a war. So what’s it going to be like when we’ve finished? Well, pretty much just like it was before.

Aug 24, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents

Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents

In his new eight-hour epic, the British filmmaker offers a globe-trotting chronicle of our times. 

Aug 24, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano

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Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue

The good place… Overconsumed…

Aug 24, 2021 / Our Readers

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