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NEWS DESK

Qaddafi’s Final Battle?by Andrew Solomon

If you call any mobile phone in Tripoli, you hear bullets in the background. But if they’re the bullets of freedom for Libya is anyone’s guess…
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September 11th: Ten Years

9/11, Then and Now

How did The New Yorker cover the September 11th attacks and their long aftermath? A new e-book gathers our coverage—from Ground Zero to Abbottabad—by Steve Coll, John Updike, Seymour M. Hersh, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Mayer, and more. With a new preface by David Remnick.
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Notes on Politics

Huntsman, 2016?by Hendrik Hertzberg

As he surely understands, 2012 is not his year. But three things could happen to clear Jon Huntsman’s path to the White House…
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ILLUSTRATION: ROZ CHAST
Cartoon Desk

Cards for Strangersby Blake Eskin

Roz Chast decided that August 24th is Strangers Day. Then she made greeting cards: paper ones and e-cards.
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ILLUSTRATION: BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
A Critic At Large

Is That All There Is?by James Wood

We are locked into our rival certainties—religiosity and secularism—and to confess to weakness is like a registered Democrat wondering if she is really a Republican.

Editors’ Choice

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PROFILES

The Deflationistby Larissa MacFarquhar

How Paul Krugman found politics.
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A Reporter at Large

Trial by Fireby David Grann

Did Texas execute an innocent man?
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Profiles

Sole Mateby Lauren Collins

Christian Louboutin and the psychology of shoes.
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Profiles

Show the Monsterby Daniel Zalewski

Guillermo del Toro’s amazing creatures.

COMMENT

ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL

How Bad Is It?by John Cassidy

The economy after the debt-ceiling agreement.

Political Scene

Lawrence Wright and Ryan Lizza on Rick Perry’s candidacy.

MULTIMEDIA

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Jennifer Hale of the “Mass Effect” trilogy joins Tom Bissell.

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The Dutch Baroque painter Frans Hals.

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John Cassavetes’s “Husbands.”

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Dana Goodyear on eating bugs.

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Portraits from Tahrir Square.

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Super Sam Fuld in action.

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Scenes from a Talk meeting.

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Jason Schwartzman introduces The New Yorker’s iPad App.
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