Weekly Review 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

A poison-gas attack in Syria, a verdict in the Manning trial, and wing-walker Flame Brewer

Relationship #5 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

Pages from William T. Vollmann’s FBI File 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

“The FBI operative in New Haven who wrote my forensic profile possessed some talent with words and turned his phrases with apparent pleasure.”

On Rand Paul’s War on the War on Drugs 23 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm

How the junior senator from Kentucky motivated the Obama Administration to forgo mandatory minimum sentences

Occupied by The Newsroom 22 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm

On inspiring (probably, maybe) a Newsroom plot arc

Introducing the September 2013 Issue 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

The case against Algebra II, the FBI’s file on William T. Vollmann, and our new Washington correspondent 

Willam T. Vollmann Was Suspected of Being the Unabomber 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

The author obtains his FBI file and discovers a case largely based on literary criticism

America by the Yard 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

From Baghdad to the Menard County Fair

On the Trouble with Farmed Shrimp 21 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am

The Mexican government announces a state of emergency following a mass shrimp die-off in the Sea of Cortez

Andrew Cockburn on the Failure and Ferocity of America’s Sanctions Programs 20 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm

“We ‘squeeze, and then squeeze some more’ with no end in sight.”