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September 22, 2014
Claire Groden
Republicans Think This Sexist New Ad Will Appeal to Female Voters
September 22, 2014
Molly Mirhashem
Stressed Out? Your Smartphone Could Know Even Before You Do
September 22, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The NFL's Failure in the Ray Rice Scandal Went Way Beyond the Commissioner
September 22, 2014
Christopher Beam
Virgos Need Not Apply
China's surprising—and sometimes scary—love of astrology
September 22, 2014
Jordan Michael Smith
Want to Be Happy? Stop Being So Cheap!
An interview with the authors of an enormous new study of generosity
September 21, 2014
Dan Jurafsky
Why Drugs Are a Metaphor for Some Foods, and Sex Is a Metaphor for Others
Exploring the language of Yelp reviews
September 21, 2014
Cass R. Sunstein
What If Counterfactuals Never Existed?
Studying history with hypotheticals
September 20, 2014
David Thomson
The Timeless Charm of Lauren Bacall
September 19, 2014
David Marquand
We Shouldn't Forget Liberalism's Religious Roots
September 19, 2014
Ariel Dorfman
What Robert Burns Would Have Made of Scottish Independence
Robert Burns helped to forge a pride of place that has become a reservoir of national identity
September 19, 2014
Alice Robb
Ebola Is Spreading Way Faster Than Anyone Predicted
September 19, 2014
Sasha Senderovich
Finally, a Russian Jewish Novel Breaks Out of the Autobiographical Rut
September 19, 2014
Steve Fishman
Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Have Better Sex?
Wisdom from Oprah's favorite new rabbi
September 19, 2014
Esther Breger
Jeffrey Tambor’s New Role Made Him “Throw-Up Nervous”
September 19, 2014
Alice Robb
The Real Stories of Disabled Men Who Pay for Sex
They don't do it for the reasons you think
September 19, 2014
Alice Robb
The Duck Penis Paradox
Is too much Internet pop science drowning out the serious stuff?
September 19, 2014
Molly Mirhashem
How a Bogus Scientific Study Becomes Internet Fact
Clenching your fists helps you remember ... or does it?
September 18, 2014
Maia Booker
Beautiful Photos of What May Be the World's Next National Border
September 17, 2014
Esther Breger
This TV Show Pays Homage To—And Utterly Ruins—The Fault in Our Stars
The latest entry in pop culture’s Year of Sick Teens
September 17, 2014
Mason B. Williams
What Ken Burns Doesn't Understand about the Roosevelts
In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost

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