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September 2013

Chris Hedges explains why the United States loves guns; John Lorinc studies the world’s best-performing retirement fund; Dan Werb explores a new way of thinking about injection drug use; Drew Nelles relives the accident that paralyzed his best friend; Emily Landau reviews David Rakoff’s posthumous novel; Alexandra Kimball ponders model Coco Rocha…

Illustration by Kyle Metcalf
September 2013

What We Can Learn from Ontario Teachers about Building Better Pensions

September 26, 2013April 13, 2020 - by John Lorinc

They have the world’s best-performing retirement fund. Is it a model for the rest of us?

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Illustration by Byron Eggenschwiler
September 2013

The Fix

September 19, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Dan Werb

A new way of thinking about the intractable problem of injection drug use

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Photograph by Natasha V.
September 2013

Vigilante Nation

September 12, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Chris Hedges

Why the United States loves guns

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"Game Theories," by Clive Thompson (June 2004)
Business / September 2013

Play Money

September 4, 2013July 1, 2020 - by Clive Thompson

The rise of virtual economics

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Education / September 2013

The Birth of Sex Ed

September 3, 2013August 28, 2017 - by The Walrus

Pure books on avoided subjects

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Poetry / September 2013

The Last Matador

August 29, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Adam Sol

It is good to be finished, finally. I am relieved. The protesters and politicians have their points, and if a certain species of man is allowed to fade into extinction …

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Science / September 2013

Masters of the Universe

August 28, 2013March 9, 2021 - by Craille Maguire Gillies

Who will call the shots at the world’s leading institute for physics?

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September 2013

Reel Poor

August 27, 2013April 5, 2017 - by Simon Lewsen

Two new Canadian features cast an unsentimental eye on poverty

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September 2013 / Society

Modelling Agency

August 22, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Alexandra Kimball

Coco Rocha’s contradictions are changing the power dynamics of fashion

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September 2013

Words to the Wise

August 21, 2013August 22, 2017 - by Dave Cameron

Lessons in early language development

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