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Clay Risen

Clay Risen

Clay Risen is an editor at the New York Times, and is the author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

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Issue March 2010

Pac Rat

The fight to preserve old video games from bit rot, obsolescence, and cultural oblivion… More »

Underestimating East Germany

Conventional wisdom says the East German economy is lagging. But its cities may be poised to outpace the west.… More »

Issue November 2008

The Lightning Rod

MICHELLE RHEE CHARGED IN as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools wielding BlackBerrys and data—and a giant axe. She has made a city with possibly the country’s worst public schools ground zero for education reform, and attracted a cadre of young zealots some critics call “Rhee-bots.” Now the changes that she insists schoolchildren need are colliding head-on with the political wants of adults.… More »

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