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This month's issue features:

Editor's Letter: Graydon Carter introduces the Special Issue on the Age of MoneyHollywood: As House of Cards enters Season Three, its fearless first lady Robin Wright opens upSociety: The killing that shocked New YorkInnovation: Richard Branson's risky bet on Virgin Galactic Nostalgia: A. A. Gill on the death of the phone callPlus: Flash Boys' Michael Lewis, Saudi Arabia's world-class shopaholic, and the White House's war on journalists