August 16, 2015 Archive August 2015

The military governs your diet: From pizza to burritos to new plastic pouches, the Pentagon wields shocking power in grocery aisle

This is the laziest rhyme in all of songwriting history — and great artists use it all the time

I am a souvenir hoarder: I'm the guy who can't throw café napkins and hotel stationery away

My body will never be "beach-ready"

3 surprisingly sane books on abortion: When absolutely no women's lives are ruined by one procedure

The perils of "Growth Mindset" education: Why we're trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system

These religious clowns should scare you: GOP candidates' gullible, lunatic faith is a massive character flaw

Charles Koch scolds the 1 percent: The plutocrat's surprising moment of clarity

"I knew I could never go home again": Jay Ducote on the high cost of cooking (gumbo) on reality television

"If we did not protest, no one would punish those men”: A brutal murder, a sham trial, and justice denied in Kabul

Watch Donald Trump address immigration, abortion and what it means to be "conservative" in "Meet the Press" exclusive

When oysters tore liberals apart: Inside the war between sustainable farmers & wilderness advocates

Scott Walker can't be serious: He's about to expose his own con on healthcare

The cheapest (and most expensive) cities in America to buy weed

We have autism all wrong: The radical new approach we need to understand and treat it

Why El Niño has never been more turbulent

TV beyond the binge: What we lose when we gain the entire story at once