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Why a third-party candidate may decide whether Barack Obama is re-elected.

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Freedom, responsibility, and sexuality converge in adolescence.

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A Reporter at Large

Reversal of Fortuneby Patrick Radden Keefe

A crusading lawyer helped Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron. But did he go too far?

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Plus: Michele Bachmann exits.

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Explaining Michele Bachmann’s summer surge.

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On Television

MTV goes to the beach.

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Books

The swoops and lurches of baseball fortune.

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The Political Scene

The Tea Party’s Cold War roots.

Kelefa Sanneh on Newt Gingrich.
Ken Auletta on Marco Rubio.
Patrick Radden Keefe on Chevron.
Peter Hessler on the yakuza.
Adam Kirsch on the influence of Rome.
Anthony Lane on two Iranian movies.

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Abraham Polonsky’s “Force of Evil.”

John Seabrook on breeding better fruit.

Portraits from Tahrir Square.

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