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The best author profile you’ll read this week
Janet Steen
The New York Times' feature on George Saunders will restore your faith in writers and their place in the culture
The inauguration of struggle
Irin Carmon
The second inauguration was about closing the gap between America's promise of equality and the reality for all
Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age?
Alec Ash
Computer security specialist Bruce Schneier examines the biggest threats to our privacy -- and society at large
Russian video arcade captures dying culture
Kyle Chayka
In Gyumri, you can play Soviet-era video games that feature protagonists from old Russian fairy tales
Why do we care if Lance apologizes?
Andrew O'Hehir
Our deranged, pseudo-Christian pop culture demanded a performance of repentance Lance Armstrong couldn't deliver
We need to make the gun control debate about crime control
Shaun Randol
The author of "Glock: The Rise of America's Gun" discusses Newtown and how we can curb gun violence in America
Why we can’t ignore the truthers
Alex Seitz-Wald
Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists aren't going to go away if we pretend they don't exist
Pick of the week: An impressive all-black crime drama
Andrew O'Hehir
Pick of the week: Rapper Common is the breakthrough star in this moody, fatalistic fable of urban manhood
A guide to the Te’o truthers
Katie McDonough
Was Te'o an evil genius? A victim? Gay? Here's a roundup of the theories behind the Notre Dame linebacker's scandal
The Mormon James Frey
Joanna Brooks
Paul H. Dunn's war stories made him one of Mormonism's most popular motivational speakers. Most were fabricated
Notre Dame’s real dead woman
Irin Carmon
Manti Te'o's soap opera moves the school's athletic director to tears, while Lizzy Seeberg's suicide is ignored
Film noir: Everything you need to know about postwar America
Jon Weiner
Richard Lingeman's "The Noir Forties" reveals how the film movement captured the period's creeping fear and anxiety
Sex (ratios) and the single girl
Katie McDonough
Far from a dating paradise, a gender gap can prove dangerous for women in cities and rural areas around the world
“Amish Mafia”: Amish gone wild?
David George
"Amish Mafia" exploits the traumatic aftermath of a massacre as entertainment. Can reality TV stoop any lower?
Newtown truthers: Where conspiracy theories come from
Alex Seitz-Wald
The Sandy Hook deniers are delusional -- but their paranoid beliefs date back to the founding of America
Religion may not survive the Internet
Valerie Tarico
There's a reason churches are struggling to maintain membership, and it has nothing to do with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Birding: The latest angsty Manhattan craze!
Andrew O'Hehir
A rich and lovely documentary — starring Jonathan Franzen! — explores the birder subculture of Central Park
Antiabortion tactic working
Irin Carmon
Alabama's Supreme Court says criminal statutes apply to the "unborn," in an end run on Roe and a win for Personhood
The Atlantic’s Scientology apology
Andrew Leonard
The publishing company says it "screwed up" but doesn't explain exactly how. Here are some hints
Stop dumping on Lena Dunham!
Elissa Schappell
The resentment toward the "Girls" star was in full force at the Globes. Why do people begrudge her her success?
Was the Korean wave just a minor swell?
Geoffrey Cain
Now that Psy has retired “Gangnam Style," the K-pop craze could be losing steam around the world
Why’s everyone so down on the memoir?
J. Nicole Jones
Critics take grim satisfaction in tearing the genre to pieces. How quickly they forget Nabokov and Karr and Wolff
Tarantino drops the N-bomb
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The director's language backstage at the Golden Globes leaves reporters speechless
Super smart ice cube warns you when you drink too much
Katie McDonough
Ignore the alert to slow down and these ice cubes send a text to your designated driver
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