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The Rise of Grade Inflation

The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Ready for Battle

I was driving north from Mary when I stopped to take a picture and found myself invited into the home of a militiaman. At first, I just wanted to photograph a “Fuck Trudeau” flag—​an eccentricity in America, in Marinette, Wisconsin—​serving as a curtain in a house.
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