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March 5, 2012

Cover Story

The Lost Party

This was supposed to be the Republicans’ election to lose. What happened? By John Heilemann

On the Cover: Rick Santorum supporters waving signs at traffic outside a campaign event for Newt Gingrich in Florida. Photograph by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine.

Features

2012 or Never

And if the GOP can’t win this one, what does that mean for its future? The real reasons behind the party’s existential panic.

By Jonathan Chait
Whitewashing Gay History

The celebration over same-sex marriage shouldn’t obscure the fact that many of its liberal champions spent decades on the wrong side of the struggle.

By Frank Rich
Björk’s Big Bang

The Icelandic pop singer’s latest incarnation: world’s most otherworldly music teacher.

By Nitsuh Abebe
Those Fabulous Confabs

The TED conference has turned the wonky eighteen-minute presentation into a populist intellectual movement.

By Benjamin Wallace

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