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R.I.P.
December 9, 2015
Ryan Kearney
The founder of The North Face died in a way few of his customers will.
September 14, 2015
Arthur Goldhammer
Stanley Hoffmann Was One of the Great Professors of Our Time
July 22, 2015
Jeet Heer
E.L. Doctorow's Novels About American History Changed the Future of Fiction
February 28, 2015
Tom Carson
Why Leonard Nimoy Came to Embrace His Long, Prosperous Life as Spock
February 14, 2015
Sam Eifling, Bijan Stephen
A Reporter Leaves His Beat
David Carr, 1956 - 2015
February 13, 2015
Peter Klein
Working in a War Zone With Bob Simon, the Humble CBS Newsman
November 24, 2014
Jefferson Morley
Marion Barry's Death Is Yet Another Blow to the "Chocolate City"
November 23, 2014
Franklin Foer
Marion Barry Was a Historic Figure Who Couldn't Admit He Was History
October 30, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Boston Strong: Remembering Mayor Thomas Menino
October 24, 2014
Gregg Herken
Ben Bradlee and the Powerful Cold War Georgetown Set
October 21, 2014
Chloe Schama
My Weekend With Oscar de la Renta
October 6, 2014
Jonathan M. Katz
Jean-Claude Duvalier Is Dead, But He Will Haunt Haiti for Years to Come
September 5, 2014
Esther Breger
Joan Rivers Didn't Care If You Liked It
Her feminism and misogyny were impossible for young women to reconcile
July 20, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Saying Goodbye to Hollywood's Most Charming, Underrated Leading Man
June 26, 2014
Norman J. Ornstein
Howard Baker Was the Kind of Reasonable Republican That Hardly Exists Anymore
The Senate majority leader showed that decency, patriotism, and hardball politics can coexist
June 7, 2014
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Winston Churchill's Last Surviving Daughter Was the Grandest of Grand Dames
May 28, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Watch Maya Angelou Read at Clinton's First Inaugural
May 28, 2014
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
Angelou's flawed books helped relieve black writers of the burden of representing their race
May 5, 2014
Edward Glaeser
Gary Becker Helped Invent the Economics of Everything
April 18, 2014
Paul Berman
García Márquez Liberated the Spanish Language from the Tyranny of the Past

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