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In this issue: Elizabeth Bruenig’s reporting from America’s death row, and what years of witnessing executions taught her about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption. George Packer on who J.D. Vance used to be, and who he has become in the pursuit of power. Xochitl Gonzalez on the exclusive—and cutthroat—world of luxury fitness. Inside the new big business of animal cloning. The Iraqi bluffing game that shows it may be possible to perfect the art of lie detection. How to look at Gauguin. New fiction from Peter Mendelsund. And a note from our editor in chief. 

 

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On the Cover

image of a painting of a shadowy silhouette of a crowd of people

Art by Peter Mendelsund

Inside America’s Death Chambers

By Elizabeth Bruenig

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption

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Articles

illustration of a black and white medieval castle with a moat around on a red background

Illustration by Ben Hickey

Feudalism Is Our Future

By Cullen Murphy

What the next Dark Ages could look like

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photoillustration of JD Vance with 3 overlapping faces with different serious expressions

Photo-illustration by David Samuel Stern*

The Talented Mr. Vance

By George Packer

J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.

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illustration of a multiple white horses and multiple brown baby horses

Photographs by Brian Finke

Inside the Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning

By Bianca Bosker

“Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.”

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montage of stills from popular teen/coming of age movies such as Twilight, Fast Times as Ridgemont high

Photo-Illustration by Colin Hunter*

Fast Times and Mean Girls

By Hillary Kelly

What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence

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illustration of a man that seems to be staring at an expansive desert

Illustrations by Ben Pearce

Weepers

By Peter Mendelsund

A short story

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image of women working out with dumbbells

Photographs by Caroline Tompkins

Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness

By Xochitl Gonzalez

How Tracy Anderson built an exercise empire

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