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Kieran Healy | 28th June 2025

Newly-minted American citizen describes the bureaucratic, absurd and moving process that got him to the point of swearing the Oath of Allegiance. The ceremony itself involved a patriotic video of landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, a "Roll Call of Nations" where the new citizens' countries of origin were namechecked, and ended with "a two-minute congratulatory video from President Trump" (1,900 words)

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The Perfect Man

David Ramsey | Oxford American | 1st July 2015

Profile of Billy Mitchell, restaurant owner and the greatest Pac-Man player the world has ever seen. He plays "at a level unimaginable to everyone else in the arcade". In 1999 he achieved "the Holy Grail of gaming", the perfect Pac-Man score. "The feat requires navigating 256 levels, and eating every single possible pellet, fruit, and ghost, for the highest score of 3,333,360, all without dying once" (5,100 words)