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January/February 2018 Issue
January/February 2018 Cover
Russia’s election-hack gamble, God’s plan for Mike Pence, and the case against college for everyone. Plus, exoneration without DNA evidence, Eva Moskowitz’s charter-school revolution, the jellyfish apocalypse, and more. View Magazine
  • What Putin Really Wants
    Julia Ioffe
  • God’s Plan for Mike Pence
    McKay Coppins
  • Can You Prove Your Innocence Without DNA?
    Barbara Bradley Hagerty
  • The Charter-School Crusader
    Elizabeth Green
  • The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
    Bryan Caplan
  • Choke-Proof Food That Tastes Like the Real Thing
    Rene Chun
Poem

Ring

A poem

By Andrea Cohen
January/February 2018 Issue
To throw your hat
in is to make
yourself bare-
headed, ready—
by oils to be
anointed, or by ark-
hard rains, of an
instant, stricken.