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After the last of four back-to-back hurricanes pummeled Haiti in August and September 2008, mountains of garbage, mud, raw sewage, and debris were left behind, clogging the streets of Port-au-Prince. A spate of unbearably hot and humid days...

The topic has come up in our pages regularly over the years.

Turning my inner bibliophile loose in a four-story bookstore is an invitation for disaster.

In a recent essay in n+1, Benjamin Kunkel, in a wide-ranging consideration of technology’s effects on contemporary culture and daily life, writes that the internet and its products feel forced upon us. For anyone who goes online daily—and...

We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.

Despite popular perceptions of the jury trial, this most central feature of the American legal system is actually slowly disappearing.