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Fluharty

The Next Shale Revolution?

The astonishing promise of enhanced oil recovery

By SAMUEL THERNSTROM

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

david polumbo

Iran’s Supreme Censor

The evolution of Ali Khamenei from sensitive lover of Western literature to enforcer of Islamic revolutionary orthodoxy

By ALI ALFONEH and REUEL MARC GERECHT

December 22, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 15

A fighter gestures outside the burning U.S. mission in Benghazi, September 11, 2

The Benghazi Report

An ongoing intelligence failure

By STEPHEN F. HAYES and THOMAS JOSCELYN

December 15, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 14

NEWSCOM

What Do Illegal Immigrants Want?

Time to bring the immigration debate out of ‘the shadows’

By PETER SKERRY

December 15, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 14

Newscom

Nonstop Appeasement

By STEPHEN F. HAYES

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

AP IMAGES / THE OKLAHOMAN / NATE BILLINGS

A Model Senator

By ANDREW FERGUSON

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

AP IMAGES / Ismael Francisco / Cubadebate

Obama’s Grand Reset

By LEE SMITH

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Senator Feinstein

A Tortured Report

By STEPHEN F. HAYES and THOMAS JOSCELYN

December 22, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 15

Obama

He Never Learns

Obama’s no-deal presidency.

By FRED BARNES

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Two former detainees—left and center—with a police  officer, right, in Montevide

The Uruguay Six

They weren’t kidnapped. They’re not refugees.

By THOMAS JOSCELYN

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Asian-American applicants: the new Jews

Waiting for the ‘Termination Point’

Is the end in sight for race-conscious college admissions?

By TERRY EASTLAND

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Gary Locke

Republicans and Wall Street

Just saying no to Elizabeth Warren isn’t enough.

By JAY COST

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

John Casey at Sewanee, 2014

Master Class

The craft of fiction and the art of rewriting

By PARKER BAUER

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Christian Bale

Exodus, Stage Left

The biblical saga gets an up-to-the-minute adaptation

By JOHN PODHORETZ

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Highway billboard, Selma, Alabama (1965)

Red Whitewash

Revising—or disguising—a chapter in civil rights history

By HARVEY KLEHR

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Ma Joad (Jane Darwell), Tom Joad (Henry Fonda), Pa Joad (Russell Simpson),  ‘The

Dust to Dust

At 75, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is less persuasive than ever

By CHARLOTTE ALLEN

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Ramirez

Kim's Plans

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Johns Hopkins

False Positive

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

zzzzz

Sentences We Didn’t Finish

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Harvard Seal

Sentences We Enjoyed So Much We Read Them Twice

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

Jori Bolton

A Philadelphia Story

Michael Warren's Christmas story

By MICHAEL WARREN

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

katherine messenger

Plato’s Diner

Mark Hemingway, Urban Diner

By MARK HEMINGWAY

December 22, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 15

Jori Bolton

Strait Man

Christopher Caldwell's Bosphorus Blues

By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

December 15, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 14

Gary Locke

Voice of Experience

Philip Terzian, literary chauffeur

By PHILIP TERZIAN

December 8, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 13

America's Latest Torture Device...

America's Latest Torture Device...

December 29, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 16

It Sounds Like Somebody Has a Case of the Mondays!

It Sounds Like Somebody Has a Case of the Mondays!

December 22, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 15

As the World Turns

As the World Turns

December 15, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 14

Did He Jump, or Was He Pushed?

Did He Jump, or Was He Pushed?

December 8, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 13