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Topic: Scandinavia

Prince performs at the First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/GettyImages)

How Minneapolis created a legend

Rashad Shabazz - The Conversation
(Getty Images/Mario Tama)

Scandinavia in Maryland?

Ann Jones - TomDispatch.com
"In Order of Disappearance" (Trust Nordisk)

A thriller cooler than "Fargo"

Andrew O'Hehir
People wait to vote in the presidential primary election outside a polling site in Glendale, Arizona on March 22, 2016, after 70 percent of polling locations were cut (Reuters/Nancy Wiechec)

America is no model state

Pippa Norris - The Conversation
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The author and his wife

I lived the Scandinavian dream

Eric Dregni
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62044p1.html'>Kim Seidl</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1226820'>samdiesel</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

American capitalism failed us

Ann Jones - TomDispatch.com
Nils Westblom in "A Pigeon Sat in a Branch Reflecting on Existence" (Roy Andersson Filmproduktion)

Ultra-deadpan Swedish sitcom

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Bernie Sanders, über-feminist

Katie McDonough
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Emmet Brickowoski in "The Lego Movie", ABBA, Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (AP/Carlos Osorio/Salon)

Is Scandinavia a utopia?

Laura Miller
Joni Ernst (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Ann Jones - TomDispatch.com
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

I hate my amazing life

Cary Tennis
Firefighters extinguish a burning car, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista late May 21, 2013. (Reuters/Fredrik Sandberg/Scanpix)

Paul Ames, Daniel DeFraia - GlobalPost
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Sarah Seltzer
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