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One, doh!, three: Homer Simpson is a math genius. Really!
Simon Singh
Believe it or not, Homer can teach us a lot about advanced math. He does work in a nuclear power plant...
My son is not the poster child for the Right to Life movement
Emily Rapp
I will not let the memory of my beloved boy, now dead, get roped into the anti-abortion worldview
John Boehner fan fiction: Three novelists go inside the speaker’s brain and imagine the shutdown’s final hours
Joshua Furst, Alissa Nutting
Novelists Joshua Furst, Elliott Holt and Alissa Nutting show us the shutdown through John Boehner's eyes
House stenographer’s unhinged outburst: No crazier than the right’s shutdown talk
Mary Elizabeth Williams
House stenographer Dianne Reidy goes on a tirade about God and Freemasons -- but still sounds remarkably familiar
Karl Lagerfeld’s cat can has cheezburger
Ej Dickson
Choupette the pet's precocious persona helps explain why felines are so worshipped -- especially online
Counting my drinks
Kathleen Volk Miller
My mother and sister disappeared into the drink. I'm careful to watch myself -- except when I slip
Modern GOP is still the party of Dixie
Kim Messick
How the South poisons American conservatism and sabotages our politics
Peter Buck: “I think we were all really ready for a change”
David Daley
Exclusive: Talking R.E.M., Tired Pony and the future, with an inspired Peter Buck -- in perhaps his last interview
Before the meltdown: The surprising roots of Paula Deen’s career
Allen Salkin
Believe it or not, Deen's rise was based on bringing people together -- on comfort food after Sept. 11
Women in the Nazi killing fields
Wendy Lower
German women witnessed, helped and participated in the genocide
Phony balance, manufactured conflict: The media just confuses the truth
Thomas Patterson
By feasting on controversy and focusing on the trivial, the media misinforms us about policy and misserves us all
Vince Gilligan explains inspiration behind “Breaking Bad” ending
Prachi Gupta
Aside from "gut feeling," the writers called upon stories and plot devices from a few other sources
“Breaking Bad'”s most powerful drug was money
Charlotte Shane
No matter how much Walt made, he wanted more -- until the bitter end, when ego was all that mattered
Ai Weiwei: My captors knew nothing about art
Barnaby Martin
The Chinese dissident and artist discusses China, imprisonment and not being beaten
How “Breaking Bad” made millennials watch live TV
Lindsay Abrams
Even young cord-cutters are tuning in live -- because that's the only way to get the full experience
The 10 most heart attack-inducing moments on “Breaking Bad” this season
Jen Chaney
From shootouts to magnets to harrowing phone calls, the show keeps knocking the wind out of us
When I couldn’t feed my family
Lorraine Berry
My trip to the soup kitchen was an invaluable lesson in humility and charity. I wish Republicans would learn it too
I asked for all this pain
Brian Moylan
I experimented in the S/M scene to cede control and test my own limits. What I never expected was to feel safe
I gave birth to a razor blade
Michael Lacare
The gruesome, embarrassing, true-life story of my first kidney stone
“The Facades”: The opera singer vanishes
Laura Miller
A man searches for his missing wife in a decaying Midwestern city full of peculiar shops and besieged librarians
Ditto boys: An elite Christian education
Jeff Sharlet
Take a tour of Westmont, a feeder school for the next generation of religious right leaders
I wanted to be a priest, but couldn’t escape sex
David Schickler
In college, the author feared a break with his destiny
Living near an airport could be toxic
Michael Behar
Environmentalists and parents worry that the lead in aviation gasoline could be harming children
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