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Don’t Cry for Jon Huntsmanby John Cassidy

Many observers are mourning his campaign. They shouldn’t.

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Unquoting Kingby Hendrik Hertzberg

After protests, the words on the M.L.K. memorial will be changed. So what’s the alternative?

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The Tortoise Racewith William Finnegan

A Manhattan night-life baron’s battle to save the plowshare tortoise.

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The True Bolañowith Willing Davidson

How his American publisher came to love the late Chilean novelist’s work.

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Among the yakuza.

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Letter From Damascus

Inside the Syrian crackdown.

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What’s wrong with the scientific method?

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Books

A new book on the Obamas.

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A Reporter at Large

Foraging with a master chef.

Ariel Levy on Callista Gingrich.
Steve Coll on negotiating with the Taliban.
New fiction by Roberto Bolaño.
William Finnegan on saving a rare tortoise.
Emily Nussbaum on “Luck.”
James Wood on pornographic prose.

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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the attacks on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.

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Donald Hall looks at his barn, and back through time.

Peter Schjeldahl on Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim.

Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage to Italy.”

John Seabrook on breeding better fruit.

Portraits from Tahrir Square.

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Scenes from a Talk meeting.

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