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Rational Irrationality

Rick Perry’s Parting Giftby John Cassidy

By withdrawing from the race and endorsing Newt Gingrich, the Texas Governor has tossed a live grenade into Mitt Romney’s lap…

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The Political Scene

Callista and Newtby Ariel Levy

Can Gingrich’s third wife save him?

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Culture Desk

How Bacon Met Chocolateby Dana Goodyear

The birthplace of the flavor combination.

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Letter From China

Great American Firewall?by Evan Osnos

In the SOPA debate, Chinese Web users wonder if they are being held up as victims, patsies, or pirates…

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Cartoon Desk

Are Sexes Necessary?by Robert Mankoff

Without conflict, there would be no cartoons.

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Eve Arnold in America.

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Letter From Moscow

The resistance to Vladimir Putin.

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Life and Letters

Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid culture runs amok.

ILLUSTRATION: PHILIPPE PETIT-ROULET

Annals of Information

Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?

ILLUSTRATION: GUY BILLOUT

Annals of National Security

How real is the nuclear threat?

ILLUSTRATION: SEAN MCCABE

A Critic at Large

The rise of a television genre.

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 “Downton Abbey.”
James Wood on Michel Houellebecq.

Complete Table of Contents

Thomas Beller reads Niccolo Tucci’s “The Evolution of Knowledge.”

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

Peter Schjeldahl on Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim.

Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.”

William Finnegan on saving the plowshare tortoise.

Portraits from Tahrir Square.

Super Sam Fuld in action.

Scenes from a Talk meeting.

Jason Schwartzman introduces The New Yorker’s iPad App.

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