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Judge blocks death sentence under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act

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News international faces nearly 50 new hacking claims

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Three Secret Service employees ousted and eight placed on leave after prostitution scandal

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Dismissed IDF chief says he regrets hitting Danish activist in front of cameras

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Live blogging the trial of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik

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Airline cancels tickets of pro-Palestinian activists planning flytilla

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Central America leads the world in violent deaths

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Putin calls for unity and support but does not get it

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Al hail Azawad

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Israeli and Lebanese navies working together?

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European court rules Abu Hamza can be extradited to US

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A move to bring streetcars back to LA

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War on drugs has failed, say Latin American leaders

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Arms dealer Viktor Bout (a.k.a. Merchant of Death) sentenced to 25 years in jail

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Aung San Suu Kyi wins a historic election in Burma. But can she get the military out of politics?

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Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion

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Spain on strike

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Afghanistan war less popular now than Iraq war was in 2006

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US Supreme Court begins constitutional review of health-care reform

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US government eases restrictions on snooping into private data

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After 30-hour siege, Toulouse shooting suspect jumps out window and is shot by police

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EU adds Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian dictator, to sanctions list

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Julian Assange to run for Australian senate

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Twin blasts hit Damascus; at least 27 killed

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Taliban suspend US talks in wake of killing

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Europe’s water resources under pressure

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Rebekah Brooks, former Sun editor and Rupert Murdoch favorite, arrested (along with five others) over phone-hacking scandal

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US sergeant murders 16 Afghan civilians, most of them children

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Though Americans are out, crisis for journalists and NGO workers in Egypt is not over

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New poll: Most Israelis oppose strike on Iran

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Romney wins Ohio; Santorum and Gingrich win lesser victories

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After Republicans redraw districts in Ohio, Dennis Kucinich loses House seat in Ohio

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Anti-Putin protesters arrested in Moscow

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Russia’s obvious election fraud

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Al Qaeda kills 78 soldiers in Yemen

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A tearful Putin claims victory

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Red Cross comes to Homs, Syria. Update: Access Denied, Red Cross says

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Andrew Breitbart dead at 43

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North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear activities for food aid

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Why Olympia Snowe quit the Senate

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Romney takes Michigan, Arizona

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Syrian activists killed during rescue

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Surprise, surprise: Berlusconi bribery case thrown out of court

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Wounded journalists anxious to flee hellish Homs

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Updates from Syria: UN accuses Assad of crimes against humanity

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Protests in Athens as Greece rushes to pass bailout laws

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Marie Colvin, 1957-2012

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For Greece, another bailout but 5 more years of austerity

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McDonald’s bans gestation crates

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Murdoch’s visit to The Sun

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Anthony Shadid, NYT Pulitzer-winning reporter, dies in Syria at 43, apparently of an asthma attack

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GM posts record profit

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Rejecting Arab League pressure, Syrian regime resumes shelling of Homs

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Syria: Bomb blast leaves 28 dead in Aleppo

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Spain’s crusading Judge Garzon disbarred

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Israel considering tax break for donors to, in the Likud bill’s words, Zionist settlements

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Greece reaches deal on bailout

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Over 100 people killed in Syria today

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FAA eases rules for drones in domestic airspace

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US pulls all staff from Syrian embassy

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Two American tourists kidnapped in Egypt, then freed

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Investigators probe Don Cornelius’s death

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Live updates from Egypt following deaths at Port Said soccer game

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Russia refuses to stop selling arms to Syria

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Anger in Egypt over 70 deaths at a soccer match

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Romney takes Florida; Newt vows to fight on

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Mossad holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran’s nuclear ambitions

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UN resolution calling for Assad to step down moves forward

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Since Wednesday, at least 100 have been killed in Syria by Assad regime

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel casts doubt on whether Greece can be saved

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Iran warns EU over oil embargo

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Congresswoman Giffords to step down as her district grows restless

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How Washington changed Obama

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Gingrich opens up lead in Florida

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Taliban-recruited Afghan soldier kills four French troops

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Did Santorum beat Romney in Iowa?

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SOPA, PIPA lead to web blackout protest

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Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder, steps down from board

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Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s long game

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Captain of stricken cruise ship fled the scene

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Another Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated

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New Hampshire blog (from the lefty Nation): Romney, then Paul

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As US pulls back armed forces, Europe faces dismal miltary reality

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IDF chief says Israel ready to absorb Syrian Alawite refugees once Assad regime falls

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Iran sentences so-called CIA agent to death

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Out in the Cold: Federal government cuts home heating assistance as winter begins

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Syrian media awaken despite crackdown

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Iraq suicide bombing kills 30

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Romney (barely) wins Iowa; Bachmann quits; New Hampshire next

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Gingrich predicts defeat in Iowa

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With Arab League monitors in Syria, protests grow

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Obama signs bill providing more military aid to Israel

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Syrian regime blames Al Qaeda for bomb blasts; protesters say ruling regime was responsible

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Vaclav Havel’s body lies in state in Prague Castle

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Court upholds right of police to stop and search citizens for the flimsiest of reasons

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Hedge fund managers got inside information from Congress during the healthcare debate

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Kim Jong-il, North Korean dictator, dies

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RIP Christopher Hitchens

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IMF: World faces 1930s-style slump

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Mission accomplished? Obama declares Iraq war a success

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A new sectarian war in Afghanistan

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The rise of the religious right in Israel

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The latest News of the World hearings

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Durban climate deal: The verdict

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Protests in Russia

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Syrian President Bashar Assad denies ordering crackdown

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30 years later, prosecutors stop seeking death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Cautious optimism about US economy

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More than 50 dead in Kabul suicide attack on Shiite pilgrims

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As crowds gather in Russia to protest elections, riot police gather too

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NYT: Russia’s election criticized

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Jacques Delors, father of the Euro, muses on its fate

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Ths science is dire on global emissions. The politics are worse.

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So long, Herman Cain

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Police used undercover detectives to infiltrate Occupy LA

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Leader of Syrian opposition group says he would end country’s alliance with Hezbollah, Iran, and Hamas

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Eliot Spitzer: Washington’s secret $7 trillion-loan program for banks

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Awaiting Egypt’s election results

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Stalin’s daughter Svetlana dies in the US

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American Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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NYT: NATO strike kills Pakistani forces

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Berkeley faculty to likely vote no confidence in chancellor over violence against Occupy Cal activists

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Egyptian protests: live blogging

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Right-wing Jewish group mapping Jerusalem businesses that employ Arabs

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Violent protests in Egypt in opposition to military rule

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Israel annexes Palestinian land near Jordan Valley

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Syrian army defectors attack intelligence base outside Damascus. The turning of the tide?

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OWS: 1,000 police clear Zuccotti Park, arrest 70

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The Supreme Court will hold hearings on the requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance by 2014

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Not so fast: Bunga Bunga Berlusconi hints at return to government

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China threatens new US debt downgrade

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Penn State scandal

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Why Ortega won re-election in Nicaragua

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Berlusconi resignation watch: live updates

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An account of Oakland’s largely peaceful general strike

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Europe continues to threaten Greece. Could Greece leave the EU?

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Oakland’s general strike

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Your tax dollars vs. Al-Shabaab

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Kenya bombs airbases of Somalian militants

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Is Israel planning a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities?

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Russian spy Anna Chapman accused of plagiarism

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Greek government on the brink

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Daniel Stone: Tea Party hypocrites

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UN anoints world’s seven billionth human

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Taliban attack kills US troops in Kabul

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Syrian thugs kidnap anti-Assad regime agitators in Lebanon

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US markets soar on news of deal to cut Greece’s debt

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Meet David Graeber, the anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street

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Islamist party wins Tunisian election

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Gaddafi buried in secret grave

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European debt talks reach crisis point

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Earthquake rocks Turkey; perhaps as many as 1,000 killed

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Syria has spent $3 billion defending its currency since the revolt broke out

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Flooding in Bangkok

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Live updates on Gaddafi’s death

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The liberal church of Herman Cain

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Tunisia prepares to vote

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Pfizer accused of paying kickbacks to Australian chemists

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Live updates: the latest on the Israel-Palestine prisoner swap

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House passes H.R. 358, a bill that allows doctors to let women die rather than perform abortion-related services

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Raj Rajartnam, hedge fund billionaire, sentenced to 11 years for insider trading

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BP, partners, face small fines over Deepwater Horizon disaster

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Senior Murdoch executive resigns after Wall Street Journal circulation scam exposed

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US ties Iran to (foiled) plot to kill Saudi ambassador; which is not quite the same thing as saving the world 

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Cairo clashes leave at least 24 dead

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Fitch ratings agency downgrades Italy and Spain

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Photos: Occupy Wall Street protests spread and grow

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Civil rights legend Fred Shuttlesworth dies

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Why wasn’t (billionaire) Steve Jobs a philanthropist?

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Steve Jobs dies of cancer. Tom Junod’s 2008 profile of the man behind Apple

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Mogadishu truck bomb kills dozens

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Amanda Knox set free

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Amanda Knox: What’s the verdict?

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Israeli leaders decry mosque arson

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Obama’s veto of Palestinian statehood

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A US drone attack in Yemen killed a top Al Qaeda target. But what are the larger legal implications of such strikes?

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Medvedev defends decision to defer to Putin

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Will Bosnia be the ninth, decisive vote for Palestinian statehood recognition by the UN Security Council?

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Gaddafi said to be hiding near Algerian border

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Al Qaeda tells Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop it with the 9/11 conspiracy nonsense

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Putin’s return

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Pakistan pushes back against US allegations of terror ties in its intelligence service

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US set to hand over Iraq bases and equipment that cost billions for nothing

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Carl Bernstein on Rupert Murdoch’s Hackergate

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Saudi women get the right to vote

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Questions after the execution of Troy Davis

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Obama vows to block Paletinian statehood in the UN

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Troy Davis executed by the state of Georgia

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Iran frees two American hikers

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Typhoon Roke threatens Japan, including earthquake-damaged northeast

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Casting doubt aside, Georgia prepares to execute Troy Davis

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Andrew Sullivan, bucking the Washington establishment, defends Joe McGinniss’s new Palin book

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Jose Padilla and American injustice

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J Street: Opposed to vote for Palestinian statehood at the UN Security Council

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ends

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Will Republicans’ obstructionism hurt them at the polls? Probably not, says history

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Palestinians take issue with US efforts to block UN recognition

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The Economist: Tim Geithner’s trip to Europe

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The good and bad in President Obama’s jobs plan

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Palestinians to seek full UN membership

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Rogue UBS trader appears in London court

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How social media is keeping the Egyptian revolution alive

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Watson: From Jeopardy! to diagnosing disease

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The killing of Syria’s Little Gandhi

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After the fall of Tripoli

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Mother of 7/7 bombing (the 2005 al-Qaeda attack on the London Underground) sues Newscorp

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Magical thinking at the Tea Party/CNN GOP debate

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More than 100 killed in Kenyan pipeline fire

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The Turkey-Israel rift

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What US Special Forces learned from Al Qaeda

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Obama’s jobs speech

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Google acquires Zagat

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The porous Libya-Niger border; will Gaddafi flee?

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11 killed in Delhi court bombing

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Switzerland pegs the Swiss franc to the Euro

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Turkey: No more defense trade with Israel

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Obama asks EPA to withdraw ozone rules

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WikiLeaks: US soldiers shot Iraqi children in the head

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Turkey to Israel: You have one day to apologize for Gaza flotilla raid

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The Guardian: How US firms profited from torture (rendition) flights

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Gaddafi’s wife and three children escape to Algeria

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Massive flooding in Vermont in Irene’s wake

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NYT: Irene goes easy on New York City, but harder on the suburbs

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Eastern US braces for Hurricane Irene

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Warren Buffett bails out Bank of America with $5 billion injection

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Gaddafi’s cry for no surrender and more live updates from Libya

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Fighting continues in and around Gaddafi compound

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Ahmadinejad vs. Iran’s Supreme Leader

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Canadian politician Jack Layton dead at 61

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Live updates: Syria and Libya unrest

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Fighting in Tripoli nears Gaddafi compound

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The last days of Gaddafi?

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An attack on southern Israel, followed by an Israeli attack on Gaza

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UN publishes Hariri indictment

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Israel and China discuss regional security

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Evidence of a News of the World phone hacking cover-up

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Rick Perry and the Neocons

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Today in Iraq: Coordinated series of attacks kills at least 60

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Google buys Motorola Mobility

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Syrian naval vessels fire on civilians in Latakia

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Bachman wins Iowa straw poll, but history suggests she has no shot at the presidency

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Appeals court strikes down key component of Obama’s health care legislation

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Markets watch as France struggles with its own debt crisis

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The problem with the Congressional super-committee on the debt reduction

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Another arrest in the News of the World phone hacking case

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London riots enter fourth day

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What did the Taliban use to shoot down the CH-47 Chinook?

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The New Yorker: The transformation of Michele Bachman

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The London riots: Guardian live blogs

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Syrian army launches fresh assaults

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The Titanic as myth

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Porn rules the web

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George Steiner: The Poetry of Thought

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Where have all the neurotics gone?

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In Memoriam: Adrienne Rich

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Two new books on David Bowie

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Do we really need stories?

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Michael Robbins: poet and hater of Hattiesburg, Miss.

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Fears grow that the Greek art market is full of forgeries

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Government austerity hurts arts funding in Europe

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Black America and the under-news

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Van Gogh: The Life

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How a question on Reddit became a Hollywood screenplay

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The editor of the Paris Review interviews the editor of the New York Review. (Both, incidentally, are based in lower Manhattan)

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Why Rosie failed and OWN is failing

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On William Gass

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Lost Altman film discovered at Kansas City flea market

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Things (Part 1), fiction by José Saramago

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John Carter: How not to sell a movie

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After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica stops the presses

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Doonsebury abortion strips too much for many US papers

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Conor Friedersdorf on Breitbart’s legacy

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Addiction and life in Hunt’s Point

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Women (or girls) lead the way in linguistic novelty

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Why have children?

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Charlotte Bronte: L’Ingratitude

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Another TED conference—and you weren’t invited

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Frank Rich: Liberals are trying to whitewash gay history

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Robert Massie’s biography of Catherine the Great

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Kalamon, the Arab journal of the revolution

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Pepsodent and the power of habit

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Do we still need publishers?

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Errol Morris, detective

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The poems of Antonia Pozzi

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Sacha Baron Cohen to hold press conference in character to discuss Oscars snub

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The making of Nigeria’s film industry

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A lost Martin Amis masterpiece? Invasion of the Space Invaders

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William Gibson’s nonfiction

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Is the world getting better?

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Did Kanye West inform Patrick French’s masterful V.S. Naipaul biography?

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Reporting, journalism, and new media

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N+1 on safety, crime, and prisons in the US

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A new translation of the Iliad. Homer’s enduring appeal

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Noam Chomsky on American Decline

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Wim Wender’s Pina

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Poor, white, and Republican

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VS Pritchett and the coming of age of the English short story

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Whitney Houston’s death may stay a mystery

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The American culture of accumulation

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The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

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Bye bye McMansion?

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French parents, like French wine and French cheese, are superior

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Happy 200th birthday, Charles Dickens

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Ben Gazzara dies

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Another Mona Lisa?

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Why they loved Hitchens

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So you want to go to film school

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DeLillo and delirium

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The London Review of Books on Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding

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Charles Baxter on Don DelLillo’s new story collection

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Patti Smith, the Mother Courage of Rock

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London Review of Books: A new history of Scientology

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Etta James dead at 73

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Salman Rushdie cancels India visit after death threat

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Drugs, murder, and books in (London’s) Soho

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Why read anymore?

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NYT: The advantages of working alone

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Expect uproar from the reissue of the Jefferson Bible

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Lapham’s Quarterly: Poor Hartley Coleridge

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Why do Americans love Downton Abbey?

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Cattelan at the Guggenheim

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The always entertaining William James

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NYT: Why authors tweet

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The many lives of Sherlock Holmes

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Egypt: The military and the mayhen

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A.N. Wilson on Wodehouse

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An undocumented American looks at the election

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N+1 on the crisis at the New School

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Vachel Lindsay, father of the Beats

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Do the classics have a future?

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Anthony Lane on Otto Preminger’s Laura

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The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

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Eve Babitz’s Hollywood

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Richard Russo, Farhad Manjoo, and Amazon

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The flow of literary bile

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James Wood on John Jeremiah Sullivan’s collection of essays

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How to write about travel

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London Review of Books: On feminism

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Guantanamo: An American History

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Civil War photos: Someone else’s children

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Urban cyclists: Intolerable snobs? (Yes.)

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Pity and war histories

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London Review of Books: JFK, conspiracy theory, and Stephen King’s latest novel

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Hey, ladies! Why get married? Good question

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A sequel to Pride and Prejudice by PD James

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Composers on their deathbeds: last works

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The celebration of Czeslaw Milosz, rock-star Polish poet

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Hedy Lamarr’s unlikely career as an inventor

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Thomas Pynchon’s guide to the Baedeker

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New Yorker: Adam Gopnik on Tolkien, the Twilight series, and young-adult fantasy

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Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood

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Communal child-rearing: Why it’s better

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Keith Gessen on Alexander Herzen

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The end of cheap coffee

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Martin Amis on Don DeLillo

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Aleister Crowley, founder of modern magick

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Geoff Dyer on the art of the novel: specifically, the paintings on Penguin book covers

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Boris Vian, the Prince of Saint-Germain

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Joan Didion and Privilege

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Geoff Dyer on Martin Amis

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Steven Millhauser: “Miracle Polish”

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Drink cheap wine

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Samuel Beckett’s letters

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Pankaj Mishra on Niall Ferguson’s new book, Civilization, which makes the (spurious, says Mishra) claim that the West’s rise was inevitable

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Kael v. Didion

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Plan C for PhD’s

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The unauthorized biography of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

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The not-so-secret life of Charles Dickens

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Biography: The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams

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Remembering Philip Larkin

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A disastrous new movie raises the tired question of who wrote Shakespeare

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Johnny Depp on Hunter S. Thompson’s angry spirit

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De Kooning at the MoMA

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NYT: The fierce imagination of Haruki Murakami

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Frank Rich: The class war has begun

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George Saunders: Tenth of December (fiction)

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Science and the heavens

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Facial hair and religion

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Julian Barnes wins Booker Prize

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Geoff Dyer on writing fiction

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Gandhi and South Africa

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James Fenton on the diaries of Count Harry Kessler

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Amazon writes publishers out of book deals, signing authors directly

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The Internet intellectual: a scathing review of Jeff Jarvis’s book, Public Parts

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Children in the Roman Empire

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Fetishizing urban design

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Simin Behbani, the lioness of Iran (though Iran doesn’t have much of an actual lion population)

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Amazon to book publishers: Welcome to the jungle

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A new book on America’s death penalty

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James Wood on Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child

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John Speke and Victorian explorers of the Nile

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Jonathan Lethem on Norman Mailer

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Sesame Street introduces a puppet who doesn’t get enough to eat

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Whither the hypertext novel?

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Alice Munro: New Selected Stories

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Why American novelists don’t deserve the Nobel Prize

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On the anniversary of the shot heard round the world, a conversation with Don DeLillo

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Into The Arena: The world of the Spanish bullfight

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Cuba's Cars, Guardian.co.uk

Photos: Cuba’s cars

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Short story: The Dead Roads by DW Wilson

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Two new books on the BP oil spill

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A guide to women in the movies

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Amazon’s Lehigh Valley sweatshop

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Hemingway: The Finest Life You Ever Saw

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Lincoln Caplan reviews William Stuntz’s The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

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De Kooning at the MoMA

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A new book on the villain of the Titanic

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REM: How a (now defunct) post-punk band from Georgia changed rock’n'roll

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The rise and fall of The Source magazine

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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti 

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Contra Emmy judges, the New York Review of Books (Daniel Mendelsohn) pans Mad Men

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Ian Kershaw’s new book, The End, on Hitler’s end game

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Mamma Mia! comes to China

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Why summer blockbusters keep getting worse

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The mythical life of Orson Welles’s Magnificent Ambersons

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The New Yorker on earlier sexual revolutions

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The 9/11 museum

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Russian Orientalism

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Hemingway’s early life in letters

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Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg founder and inventor of the e-book dies

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How a book is born

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Learning from Hume

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Is Donnie Darko a 9/11 movie?

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In praise of graphic novels

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Man Booker shortlist: Hollinghurst omitted

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Jorge Castaneda’s Manana Forever and the future of Mexico

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Writer, meet Rejection

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Joseph O’Neill on V.S. Naipaul and the artistic rewards of statelessness

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A new Malcolm X biography

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Can the symphony be saved?

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Dick Cheney looks back fondly on the years he ran the United States

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CHAVS: Why does Britain mock its working class?

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Errol Morris on truth, lies, and photographs

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Xi Jinping and China’s self-proclaimed liberation of Tibet

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Chavs: The demonization of the working class

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Thursday poem: Episode, Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Samuel Palmer, the English van Gogh

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What happens when a novel doesn’t sell?

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Will Self: Young women and sexual capital

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Distracted writer? Try a typewriter

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Rimbaud: Still all the rage

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When it comes to reading newspapers, print still trumps digital

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Spies, holy wars, and pulp Orientalism

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Geoff Dyer’s literary allergy to David Foster Wallace

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A museum’s move: The rise and fall of the Barnes Foundation

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La Isabela: Columbus’s forgotten first settlement

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Graceland at twenty-five

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Mary Gaitskill: Something Better Than This

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Shakespeare’s beasts

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The hidden meaning of pronouns

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Machines that speak to us may not be saying much

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Eric Foner reviews Robin Blackburn’s The American Crucible

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Redux: A good, not woe-is-me, testament to the (by most measures very successful) writing life

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April Bernard: Why I hate writers’ houses

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Newly released activist Ai Wei Wei speaks out

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Allen Ginsberg’s ode to failure

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Rupert Murdoch: Exile on Fleet Street

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Curzio Malaparte: The Traitor

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The 20th century transformation of European cities

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Martin Creed’s stairway to heaven

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Painting over Dorian Gray

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Why there are no more Joseph Hellers

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Dave Eggers profiles the reclusive Maurice Sendak

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Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life

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How George Bernard Shaw fell for Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

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How Google dominates us

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American violence: Interview with Patrick deWitt

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Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Dave Eggers, and all that Brooklyn kitsch

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Paul Krugman and Robin Wells on Jeff Madrick’s new book, Age of Greed

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Israeli Chamber Orchestra becomes first Israeli ensemble to play Wagner in Germany

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Amy Winehouse postmortem inconclusive

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Verlaine, Rimbaud … and John Ashberry

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Alan Bennett on libraries

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Readers without Borders

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Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

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Lydia Davis: The Dreadful Mucamas

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Colin Thubron: To a Mountain in Tibet

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Paul Scott’s Raj letters

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Writing (and reading) can make you miserable; a whinge

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Christopher Hitchens on Fleet Street’s finest

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Freeman Dyson on scientific superstar Richard Feynman

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An old Paris Review interview (from the Spring 1953 debut issue) with E.M. Forster

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The forgotten writers who grew up in the shadow of Shakespeare

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Argentine singer Facundo Cabral murdered in Guatemala

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Jerusalem: Two Futures

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Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter, together and apart

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Another writer (Alex Shakar) whines about how 9/11 hurt his book sales

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Friends remember Chekhov

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Adam Hochschild’s new book on World War I and the divisions it created in Britain

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Japan’s holographic pop star Hatsune Miku makes her US debut in LA this July 4th. (Is she nervous?)

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Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel: The Stranger’s Child

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Will the iPad save comic books, or destroy them?

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Why Niebuhr now?

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A cultural history of shoplifting

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James McPherson on five new Civil War books

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Pak Kyung-ni: Land

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Q & A with Salman Rushdie

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Whitey Bulger story pays off for Hollywood

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Jonathan Lethem short story: The Empty Room

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John Galliano will go on trial in France for racist remarks

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Barney Frank reflects

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Trayvon Martin and the American obsession with guns

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Sam Harris on free will

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Why going public sucks for tech companies

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Random moving short video: Caine’s arcade

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The dangers of digital currency

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50 years of James Bond product placement

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Google’s augmented-reality glasses will be on sale in late 2012

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Take that, Wilt Chamberlain. Lebanese basketball player scores 113 points in FIBA-sanctioned playoff game

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Fear rules Monterrey

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Recruit against Kentucky? Good luck.

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Las Vegas moves to Macau

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Obama vs. Boehner: The NY Times Magazine’s exhaustive account of the failed debt deal

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Mark Rypien heads class-action suit against NFL related to head injuries and brain damage

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Why do Americans love guns?

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Andrew Moore/European Pressphoto Agency

Urban growth has a new meaning in the Lower Ninth Ward

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Breaking down Rick Santorum’s new Obamaville ad

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How Steve Rattner’s op-ed on inequality in the New York Times got it wrong

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Wegmans, the anti-Walmart

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No innovation until we run out of energy

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Frank Rich: The GOP’s woman trouble

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San Francisco battles erosion and rising sea levels

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Death in the afternoon

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The Wall Street lacrosse mafia

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Why is poverty soaring in the suburbs?

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Friedersdorf reviews Mark Levin’s Ameritopia

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Barry Schwartz: Why don’t false ideas fade away?

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Mike Daisey’s partial fabrications about Apple and Foxconn

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Peyton Manning chooses Denver Broncos. Tim Tebow will be traded.

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Meet Paul Clement, the Republican Party’s go-to lawyer

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Foxwoods Casino is fighting for its life

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Lessons from Phoenix, America’s least sustainable city

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Citing company’s ethical decline, executive resigns from Goldman Sachs

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DNA evidence is often too little, too late

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Geoff Dyer: The seductive allure of the hotel bar

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Obama’s capitulation to Netanyahu over Israel’s illegal settlement building

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College and the reproduction of privilege

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America is stealing the world’s doctors

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Is it possible to stop Kony?

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How does Twitter make money? Their own CEO doesn’t know.

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Greyhound races face extinction

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Locavore life: eating as an act of penance (and gluttony)

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China’s high-speed building boom

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Why bad beer is best drunk very cold

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Flunking Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

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The Great Sea: the story of the Mediterranean

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David Remnick: Israel and Democracy

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Olympia Snowe and the myth of the middle

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Why procrastination is good for innovation

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The experiences of an online-shipping warehouse wage slave

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Lenny Cooke, the LeBron who never panned out

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Is antivirus software a waste of time and money?

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Right-wing racism

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Organic farmers lose out to Monsanto

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Why global warming skeptics are wrong

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Africa’s dirty wars and child soldiers

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Obama, the GOP, and the shifting center

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What doomed the Maya? Several years of mild drought

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PETA kills nearly all the the animals it takes into its shelters?

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The rise of Harvard hoops (after Jeremy Lin)

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Nepali slaves in the Middle East

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Gas prices and the presidency

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Mexican drug war fuels private security boom in US

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Painting at Auschwitz

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Mitt Romney’s student days at BYU

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Crushing student loan debt denies home ownership to many

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Why Jeremy Lin’s story is nothing like Tim Tebow’s

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Why the UN is like a failed state

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The Tea Party’s war on mass transit

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Why do men commit 90% of murders?

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The mystery man behind 5-Hour Energy drink

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Andrew Hacker: We’re more unequal than you think

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Gorbachev calls on Putin to step down

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So-called patent troll Eolas defeated by Google, Amazon, and other large corporations in interactive web case

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Indianapolis: Urbanism and the Superbowl

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Richard Handl, the do-it-yourself atomic scientist

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Linsanity sweeps New York

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Mindful Eating

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Spotlight on the Susan G. Komen board

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Wall Street: the end of an era?

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What Obama can learn from Elizabeth Warren (how to get female votes)

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Migrants and borders

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A busy season for Sherlock Holmes

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Self-deportation: The joke the GOP doesn’t get

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Recession? What recession? Pointless speculation on the details of Facebook’s IPO

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Can Italy change?

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Why the Clean Tech boom went bust

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Cities: the smart way to ruin the earth more slowly

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Frum, Kagan, Obama, and American Decline

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The suicide of Tyler Clementi, gay Rutgers student

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Novak Djokovic topples Nadal in epic 5-set Australian Open final

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Censored tweets?

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HBR: To-do lists don’t work

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It’s now up to China to save capitalism

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Apple has more cash than the GDP of Singapore. What should it do with it?

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5% of patients account for half our healthcare spending

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Another instant classic? Federer and Nadal to meet in Australian Open semis

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Gingrich will skip debate if audiences aren’t allowed to applaud

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The United States’s great shame: its sprawling, growing prison system

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Weighing the Joe Paterno legacy

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Mitt Romney feels your pain, Floridians

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Will the US ever have a viable third party?

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The iPhone and what’s wrong with the American job market

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Joe Paterno dies

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In an age of hyperconnectivity, the joys of going it alone

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Katha Pollitt on Ron Paul

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G-spot definitely does not exist, scientists say

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St. Louis Rams become first NFL team to commit to hosting regular season games in Europe

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Bill McKibben on Keystone XL

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Paula Deen now selling diabetes medication

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The key to understanding South Carolina GOP politics? Barbecue, of course

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Do sports build character?

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The depressing pseudoscience of Blue Monday

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The myth of American productivity

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Half-brother of North Korea’s new leader predicts regime collapse with or without reforms

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The greatest running shoe never sold

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Google to Facebook and Twitter: Give us your data

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Capitalism, knowledge, and the revolt of the salaried bourgeoise

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The year that winter forgot

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Human nature and the volatile stock market

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Celebrating ten years of quasi-legal Guanatanamo prison camp

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How many US soldiers were wounded in Iraq?

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Why the Occupy movemnet disrupts speakers on campus

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NYT: The myth of Japan’s failure

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The London Review of Books on the European crisis

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New York City Council: Corporations are not people

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Goodbye, ownership society

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How yoga can wreck your body

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In praise of cities

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BP court filing asks Halliburton to pay for Deepwater Horizon spill

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Ron Paul: Sullivan vs. Frum

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Obama’s parents

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Autism and love

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From the archives: The Armenian massacres

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1968 Olympian Lee Evans has a brain tumor and no health insurance

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Shell announces worst oil spill in a decade in Nigeria

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Steve Jobs and outsourcing

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Iraq: What remains?

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Romney’s lies about Obama

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Was the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans justified?

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Whose Egypt?

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Hitch’s bestest friend on Christopher Hitchens

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Newt Gingrich: Judiciary branch should be ignored when the people say so

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Russian news says goodbye to Kim Jong-Il

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Joseph Stiglitz: What the Great Depression teaches us about these trying economic times

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From the archives: a wonderful New Yorker article about the lives of elevators

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The fracturing of Occupy Wall Street

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Anatomy of a smear gone wrong

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Consider the cheeseburger

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Why 22-year-old student Andrew Kaczynski scares Republican candidates

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Magic and math

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Frum: Where are the GOP’s ideas to help the middle class?

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NYT’s Krugman: Depression, democracy, and the end of the European dream

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High-speed rail will never happen in the US

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Hitchens: What doesn’t kill you sure fucks you up

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The wizard of OWS

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Who cares about highly endangered elephants? Scientists step closer to cloning woolly mammoth

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Hillary Clinton on gay rights as human rights

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Holiday: Notes on a forgotten travel magazine

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600 lightyears away, another Earth?

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Kodak: The long fadeout of a once-great company

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What happened to Bronx Science?

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A look at the new Brooklyn

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NYT: Punched Out. The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer. Part 1 in a 3-part series on Derek Boogard

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Apple apologizes for Siri’s pro-life bias

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Another sex abuse crisis in America: immigrant detainees

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Are US counter-terror measures contributing to East Africa’s famine?

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NYT’s Krugman: Tax the super rich and financial transactions

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Occupy Wall Street: As white as the Tea Party protests?

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Parsing Newt Gingrich’s (many) writings

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New York Review of Books: Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn set up?

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Red state, blue state: Both models are broken

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How billionaires avoid paying their rightful share in taxes

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Iran and the myth of the bomb

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Frum: Dude, where’s my party?

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Good-natured porn star James Deen, and his fans, teenage girls

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The problem with parking spaces

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GQ’s pizza party with Herman Cain, alleged sexual harasser and foreign policy dunce

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NBA players reject (low-ball) league contract offer. Will disband union, take matters to the (legal) courts and likely lose the season

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Proof found for unifying quantum principle

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Jeff Bezos owns the web. You just don’t know it

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Europe, US, China: Which economy has it the worst?

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Romney: Prepare for war with Iran if I’m elected

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New York Times Magazine profiles Herman Cain

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Paul Volcker on the unfinished business of financial reform

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RIP Joe Frazier: A eulogy by David Remnick, New Yorker editor and Muhammad Ali biographer

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NYT: Penn State is planning exit of football coach-demagogue Joe Paterno due to his non-action during sex-abuse case

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Wikipedia: As important as the Pyramids?

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Scandal in the age of Obama

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America’s corporate tax shame

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The Apple App Store Casino

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Archives: John Jeremiah Sullivan on the Tea Party

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How FDR created today’s Republican party

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Frum: Why the GOP should care about poor people

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The poor: Who are they and what do they want?

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Fairfield County’s luxury gap

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The racist history of the Washington Redskins

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The New Yorker on the last days of Gaddafi

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The US’s ugly alliance with Uzbekistan

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EPA considers commenting on Keystone XL

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Egypts’s economy, post-revolution

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Hackers target Oakland police after crackdown

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What hope for Somalia?

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What killed the inhabitants of Easter Island? It wasn’t ecocide says a new book

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Order and chaos in Zuccotti Park

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An Apple television?

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iOS will dominate other tablet platforms until at least 2017

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Romney at Bain Capital

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Why the war in Iraq won’t be over when the last US troops leave

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What was the population of the world when you were born?

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Frank Rich on Occupy Wall Street and class warfare

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Jeff Foster, an unspectacular NBA player who saves his money

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Time for the US to re-examine bankrolling the wealthy state of Israel?

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For the first time, 50% of Americans say they want pot legalized

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Why Occupy Sydney fizzled

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Chris Christie will consider VP role if asked

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The New Yorker profiles Jill Abramson, the New York Times’s new executive editor

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Guernica: Who killed Che?

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Reflections on the massacre of Copts in Cairo

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Georgetown University’s new class on Jay-Z

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Energy: friend or foe?

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War on Drugs: Fight the cartels, not drugs themselves

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Vladislav Surkov, Putin’s Rasputin

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How responsible are Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac for the economic malaise?

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Dennis Ritchie, the shoulders Steve Jobs stood on

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The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street

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Blendr, a straight version of Grindr

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Goodbye, Quikster

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Raiders’ owner Al Davis dies at 82

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Wired remembers Steve Jobs

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Macworld remembers Steve Jobs

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France bans ketchup in school cafeterias—except on French fries

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Taken by Somali pirates

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Hitchens defends killing of Anwar al-Awlaki

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The latest on the Tupac and Biggie murders

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Eric Cantor and the success of Republican obstructionism

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Larry McMurtry on fellow Texan Rick Perry

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The end of the euro?

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Baseball umpires are almost all white. Is this a problem?

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Is the passing game ruining pro football?

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What’s behind the media’s scorn for the Wall Street protests?

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New York Times: The Red Sox historic collapse

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Russian army ends purchase of Kalashnikov rifles

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Malcolm Gladwell on the Brooklyn Nets and NBA economics

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Frum: The gold bug bailout

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If tennis players have coaches, why don’t surgeons?

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The war on insider trading

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The world’s rudest hand gestures

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Netflix: From one disaster to another?

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