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Feature
What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse
To see the Arctic death spiral firsthand, and to see the Arctic before it melted, I took a 17-day “adventure cruise” and learned an inconvenient truth: We can’t make it stop.
Roy Scranton
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How a Gentrification Scam Threatens New York’s Community Gardens
Shady developers know one easy way to build luxury condos: Claim ownership of communal land.
DW Gibson
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Editorial
Why Palestinians Need an International Protection Force
It will ensure that lives are placed above politics, and defend a besieged population nearing its 50th year under brutal occupation.
Diana Buttu and Nadia Hijab
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John Cameron Mitchell’s Journey From Reaganite to Punk Queen
As Hedwig prepares a national tour, its creator talks with our editors about the show’s genesis, ’90s New York, and socialist project management.
Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner
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What’s Wrong With Obama’s Decision to Keep Troops in Afghanistan
They’re protecting the tenuous grip on power of an increasingly unpopular government.
The Editors
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Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’
Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners.
William Greider
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Column
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Books & the Arts
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Something Important Seeping Out of the World
Films about mourning and illness, and some worthy commercial fare, dominated this year’s New York Film Festival.
Stuart Klawans
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The Noisy Silence of Picasso’s Guitars
His sculptures reveal the artist’s secret affinities with nascent anti-colonialist movements.
Barry Schwabsky
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Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible
Why we shouldn’t let neuroscience banish mystery from human life.
Marilynne Robinson
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Letters
Letters From the November 9, 2015, Issue
Inside out and outside in… Gates’s gilded gospel… obstacle illusions…
Barry Schwabsky, Michael Sorkin and Our Readers
