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America’s trendiest names ever
Theresa Fisher
Unlike Sophia and Jacob, these flash-in-the-pan monikers never had staying power or dominated a kindergarten roster
Filner – not Weiner – is the real Democratic sex scandal
Katie Halper
When media outlets conflate the two scandals, they ignore the issue of consent and do women a disservice
Demetri Martin: “There’s something about trying to make stuff that you admire, even if you can’t pull it off”
Molly Ringwald
In a wide-ranging interview with Molly Ringwald, the comedian/actor/writer/artist shares his wonder of creation
Cities will save us!
Henry Grabar
Our cities are living laboratories for experiments in how we want to live, and Dream City will chronicle them all
Jerry Seinfeld provides an antidote to Jeselnik’s junior-high humor
Jennifer L. Pozner
"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" is, despite problems, the thinking viewer's alternative to Jeselnik's show
“Canyons” director: James Deen and Lindsay Lohan “grew up in the porn culture”
Daniel D'Addario
Director Paul Schrader opens up on his new film, working with Bret Easton Ellis, and directing James Deen
Our autism-phobia
Jennifer Richler
When my daughter failed to meet a developmental milestone, I realized how anxious parents these days have become
“They’re not treating mom well”
ProPublica, A.C. Thompson, Jonathan Jones
An investigative report reveals systemic abuse and neglect at an assisted care facility in California
MIT’s betrayal of hacker culture
Andrew Leonard
Aaron Swartz's friends are calling a new report a "whitewash." But it's really a condemnation
Amazon is worse than Walmart
Daniel D'Addario
The company's war on bookstores and book culture is increasingly supported by, yes, the Obama administration
I was a climate change denier
Yotam Marom
Hurricane Sandy helped open my eyes to the urgency of the crisis -- and the ways it can unite us
Must-see morning clip: Mark Leibovich talks D.C. culture on “The Daily Show”
Prachi Gupta
He describes it as "a permanent feudal class"
Why is a SWAT team assaulting me? I’m just dancing at a rave
Radley Balko
Local cops use anti-terrorism grants for heavy artillery, descend on dances, homeowners, marijuana dispensaries
The Lady vanishes: How a disgraced CIA agent “disappeared”
Tom Engelhardt
While it hunts down Snowden, the Obama administration is busy helping Robert Seldon Lady escape kidnapping charges
Revealing your inner selfie
Alicia Eler
Five portraits offer clues to their subjects' identities, all while inviting a kind of complicit voyeurism
Binders full of women lives on
Joey Cosco
Mitt Romney is ready to forget his botched debate answer on equal pay. Thankfully, the Internet never will
Twitter must confront its bullies
Mary Elizabeth Williams
An outbreak of misogyny over Jane Austen shows how toxic social media can get
“I think she could have died”
Erica Hellerstein
Think Chile is an emerging nation? Its policies and stories on women's health issues will frighten you
5 reasons there aren’t more women in atheism
Soraya Chemaly
The social movement is no less subject to the norms of our overtly patriarchal society
McDonald’s McModernist roots
Jimmy Stamp
Now aglow in 116 countries, the golden arches have evolved from a roadside advertising scheme into a global symbol
Global warming, LSD, euthanasia: Bring on the death panels
Alexander Zaitchik
Heat waves and a frayed safety net have made old age uncomfortable. Sci-fi talk about end-of-life drugs make sense
“I write street lit because that’s the life I lived”
Marlisse Silver Sweeney
Deborah Cardona's books tell stories of gangs, prison and redemption usually ignored by mainstream lit
Bad things should happen to bad people!
Richard H. Smith
We feel better when politicians, athletes and others we despise fail — and celebrating that helps makes us human
Najla Said: “My Arab-American story is not typical in any way”
Ej Dickson
Author Najla Said talks about her book, her struggle with anorexia and growing up Edward Said's daughter
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