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THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLDby Ryan Lizza

Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have radically changed Barack Obama’s restrained approach to foreign policy…

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The Inner Voiceby Pankaj Mishra

Gandhi’s legend too often obscures the audacious radicalism of his ideas…

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WikiLeaks In Guantánamoby Amy Davidson

Classified dossiers on hundreds of prisoners raise questions about why they’re really being held…

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Our London correspondent braces for the royal wedding.

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Lauren Collins on Britain’s royal wedding.
James Surowiecki on health-care costs.
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Evan Ratliff on an F.B.I. informant.
Rivka Galchen on quantum computing.

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The mysteries of time and the brain.

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The value of checking Facebook at work.

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Helena Rubinstein’s beauty business.

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A Critic at Large

The mad genius of “Modernist Cuisine.”

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Europe on fifteen hundred yuan a day.

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The birtherism of a nation.

Sam Lipsyte reads Thomas McGuane’s “Cowboy.”

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