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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Wade Davis

Wade Davis is a cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and photographer. His many books include Magdalena: River of Dreams.

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This Is America

A promissory note not yet paid July | August 2021
If America hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough.— Cory Booker One of the joys of living in Washington, D.C., was the promise of spring days, with the cherry blossoms in bloom and friends arriving from out of town, all of them keen to experience the great monuments and sweeping vistas of the nation’s…