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A gift from Buchenwald
John Guzlowski
My parents survived the concentration camps. In the US, they carried with them a reminder of their grief
Climate change: ‘This is just the beginning’
Amy Goodman
The media should not continue to ignore the essential link between extreme weather and climate change
Local food isn’t bad
Jill Richardson
A critique proves that models used in neoliberal economics do not accurately apply to food and agriculture
Does Hollywood hate adults?
Andrew O'Hehir
Bloated with teen-oriented summer spectacles, the ailing film industry may finally look to moviegoers over 30
“Twenty Twelve”: If Michael Scott ran the Olympics
Roger Catlin
If "The Office" was tasked with promoting the Olympics instead of making paper, it might look like "Twenty Twelve"
Mark Twain invented Mitt
W. Andrew Ewell
Healthcare, race, the Tea Party, the right size of government: "Huck Finn" practically predicted the 2012 campaign
Put an octopus on it!
Hsuan Hsu
Forget birds: Occupiers and Etsy hipsters have reclaimed the octopus, once a symbol of corporate domination
Religious right’s new rivals
Sarah Posner
There's a growing group of conservative Christians that's even more extreme -- and also in love with Ron Paul
I flunked out of clown school
Mark J. Drozdowski
I thought becoming a clown would be easy, or at least manageable. The joke was on me
Time to farm hemp
Jill Richardson
It's time to end our insane hemp prohibition. If it's legal in soaps – and even to eat – then why can't we grow it?
Why are believers ignorant about atheists?
Greta Christina
When believers talk about atheists, they often don't bother to talk to any first. What are they afraid of?
Tea Party “treason”
Glenn Greenwald
What powers should the president have against those who advocate open, violent revolt against the U.S. government?
Covers look familiar?
Sarah Amandolare
The new Scientific American appears to borrow a cover idea from the New York Times Magazine
Student anger boils over
Natasha Lennard
The idea of a student debt strike is circulating among activists -- could it take off?
Hit me with your vest shot: Weiner pokes fun at Eugenides ad
Jami Attenberg
Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner sports a familiar vest in a cheeky ad campaign for her new novel
Before Nora was Nora
John Blumenthal
Nora Ephron took pity on me as a lowly peon at Esquire magazine. Then she found me a job
How to rate a writer’s deceit
Seth Mnookin
From Jonah Lehrer to President Obama, writers keep getting accused of treachery. Here's how to tell when it's real
Click here or we’ll burn this book
Laura Miller
Is threatening to torch books the only way we can get people to care about them anymore?
Rolling the Supreme Court dice
Alex Seitz-Wald
A guide to every opinion and outcome of the healthcare case
Take focus off the court
Mark Schmitt
The huge role of money in politics can be addressed in ways that don't rely completely on the nine Supremes
Thanks, Antonin Scalia
Joan Walsh
The justice's brazen partisanship might wake Americans up to the court's increasingly radical political agenda
America’s real divisions
David Sirota
Americans aren't as divided over politics as the pundits say. But they disagree on everything else
I loved girls, but no one knew
Renata Costa
I never acted on my feelings, and I'm still haunted to this day
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