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The Week’s Best Longreads for July 13, 2013

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The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By David Sessions.

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The Education of Rand PaulStaurt A. Reid, Washington Monthly

How is a first-year senator becoming a force in his party on foreign policy? Because in today’s GOP, he’s what passes for moderate.

A plan for peace in gangland.

A Wasted CrisisPaul Starr, The New Republic

Why the Democrats did so little to change Wall Street.

Why’d You Shoot Me? I Was Reading a Book!Radley Balko, Salon

America’s new militarized police forces are out of control.

Death in the DesertTerry Greene Sterling, Newsweek

As the immigration debate rages in Washington and Congress pushes for a $43 billion new border-security surge, undocumented immigrants continue to perish in Arizona’s harsh wilderness. One mother’s attempt to bring her family to America.

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