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Luigi Mangione’s ‘Baffling’ Journey
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Why Russia Can’t Win
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Dear Sinéad
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'People Are Not Fools'
Doctor, My Eyes
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‘It’s not hard to be compassionate.’
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Trump’s Huge Tariff Exemption Grift
The latest shakedown makes Tammany Hall and the Daley Machine look like the League of Women Voters
Published on OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter • 
The Garden of Allah
A poem for F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A Letter From F. Scott Fitzgerald
In honor of the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, TFP goes to the archives to share an unexpected letter from the chronicler of the Jazz Age.
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In the Summer of My Fifty-Seventh Year
A poem for America
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Description for Masae
A poem for spring
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Trumpville, Anyone?
A letter from President Herbert Hoover to President Donald Trump on the dangers of a global trade war.
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Scott Newstok: Helen Vendler and the Art of Mentoring
Like all great mentors, the visionary poetry critic and professor helped me to understand my own architecture better.
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The First Person with Michael Judge
The First Person with Michael Judge
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