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Hampton Sides stated that Carson felt the Native Americans needed reservations as a way of physically separating and shielding them from white hostility and white culture.

This week in the magazine, Hampton Sides writes about the World Cup.

Fussy, grim-faced, iron-willed, he was, as Hampton Sides puts it, "plodding and colorless."

Early on, Hampton Sides writes of the mountain men:

The effort to subject the efficacy of prayer to scientific tests is a fascinating idea ("The Calibration of Belief," by Hampton Sides).

Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcón, and Burkhard Bilger discuss the World Cup.

In the June 7th issue of the magazine, Hampton Sides wrote about Tim Howard, the U.S. team's standout goalie.

By Hampton Sides.

Hampton Sides (born 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American historian and journalist.