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November 25, 2013

Cover Story

Platinum Underdog

A northern girl embraced as the face of country music. A celebrity-dating tabloid magnet who takes breakups as hard as any adolescent spurned. By Jody Rosen

On the Cover: Taylor Swift. Photograph by Karen Collins/Trunk Archive.

Features

The Truly Paranoid Style in American Politics

Fifty years after JFK’s assassination, with fever-dream claims coming true, the climate for conspiracy-mongering has never been so rich.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Twin Titans of Stuyvesant High School

Jack and David Cahn are possibly the most overachieving seniors in the city’s most overachieving school.

By Jada Yuan

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

In the Tank

Why teams have started torpedoing their seasons to secure top draft picks, and why that is an absolutely terrible strategy.

Departments

Strategist

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