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Gun applications on the rise for Indian women
Katie McDonough
In the wake of the brutal rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi woman, requests for firearm permits spike
Delhi gang rapists tried to run over victim
Kaitlin Funaro
The gang who beat an Indian student to death reportedly tried to run her over with the bus
You can be a wine snob too!
Daisy Banks
California winemaker Randall Grahm offers an eclectic reading list for understanding and enjoying the world of wine
Is documentary-style photography dead?
Kate Wolf
The rerelease of Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" reminds us what we've lost in the Internet age
“Girls”: Can this friendship be saved?
Elissa Schappell
"Girls'" Hannah and Marnie had one of the rawest, most brutal BFF fights depicted on TV. They'll survive. I think
All my wasted New Year’s
Helaina Hovitz
I thought binge-drinking was normal for girls my age. But at 22, I realized nothing was normal about how I drank
Talking with Daniel Mendelsohn about the year in literary criticism
Laura Miller
Two critics discuss 2012's raging debates over sock puppets, Twitter cheerleaders and hatchet-job reviews
Ermahgerd! The year in memes
Mary Elizabeth Williams
From Texts from Hillary to "Gangham Style," we look back on what went viral in 2012
10 pivotal moments for digital art in 2012
Kyle Chayka
From advanced drones to Twitter poetry to iPhone mania, the medium has drastically evolved over the past 12 months
“Jungleland”: In search of a lost city
Laura Miller
The true story of a journalist seeking fabled ruins in a Central American jungle is a pulp adventure come to life
Carrie Brownstein: “A lot of these characters are permutations of myself”
Willa Paskin
The "Portlandia" star cops to occasionally consuming non-locally sourced coffee, among other un-P.C. transgressions
“The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity
Alec Foege
There's a reason Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in their garage: We've stopped rewarding inventors
Silencers: The NRA’s latest big lie
Alexander Zaitchik
Silencers could give the next Adam Lanza even more time to kill -- but to the NRA, they protect kids' hearing
Nobody likes a quitter
Taylor Ellsworth
I've quit smoking enough times to make me an expert -- and I've learned not everyone wants me to succeed
The “Zero Dark Thirty” debate isn’t really about torture
Andrew O'Hehir
Reducing "Zero Dark Thirty" to a partisan argument about torture misses the big questions it raises about America
India’s culture of rape is endemic
Jason Overdorf
By choosing candidates facing rape charges, the country's political parties have implicitly sanctioned the crime
Do media vultures perpetuate mass shootings?
Rin Kelly
We remember the killers' names, but not the victims, mourns the daughter of a teacher at Columbine
Paintings suggesting gay clerics sow outrage in Pakistan
Asif Shahzad
The journal that published the works shut down, pulled the issue from stores and dissolved its editorial board
Iraq vet: Newtown changed my mind on gun control
Liam Madden
I'm a hunter and a vet, and I revere the Second Amendment. But I used bankrupt logic: It's time for gun control
Could a black director have made “Django”?
David Sirota
Tarantino's daring film would have been received differently by the media -- or never made -- if he wasn't white
Not even Hollywood can screw up Les Misérables
Laurie Winer
What began as the perfect musical for the AIDS epidemic and Reagan-era decay has become something more enduring
Celebrating Anonymous: The hackers’ big year
Andrew Leonard
Bad copyright laws, evil religious nuts, overzealous cops: In 2012, the hacker collective picked its enemies well
Does the Bible make Americans more violent?
Valerie Tarico
Our love-hate-love affair with violence goes way back -- perhaps as far as the Old Testament
Let’s talk about dying
Lillian B. Rubin
At 88 and ailing, I refuse to live at any cost. I only hope that when the time comes, I'll have the courage to act
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