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Watching Farrah’s public suffering
Kate Harding
All the attention surrounding 1970s icon's terminal illness shows how little we acknowledge death as a natural part of life.
Dark days for the right
Vincent Rossmeier
Judging from what leading conservatives are saying, these are very bad times for the GOP.
Don’t worry, be happy, pay lots of taxes
Andrew Leonard
Those darn Scandinavians lead the world in "life satisfaction" and super-expensive "nanny states." Could they get any more annoying?
Can Obama ease the abortion debate?
Kate Harding
As the president seeks common ground between pro-choice and pro-life camps, conservatives scurry farther to the right.
The Cannes death rattle
Wolfgang Höbel
The Hollywood elite may be headed to the south of France this week, but the mood is gloomy. Has the moment for big film festivals -- and the enthusiasm for art-house cinema -- passed?
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Do you really think I'd lie to you about cabin air? Plus: The Colgan crash and the problems with regional airlines.
Veronica Lario, accidental feminist
Judy Berman
Silvio Berlusconi's outspoken soon-to-be ex-wife is uniting women across the political spectrum
Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering
Mark Benjamin
An FBI agent testifies that an al-Qaida prisoner provided useful intelligence until the CIA got rough -- and casts doubt on Bush's statements about the effectiveness of harsh interrogations.
Call me Ishmael. The end.
Barry Yourgrau
Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.
Dawn Johnsen’s belief in the rule of law disqualifies her from Senate confirmation
Glenn Greenwald
Compare Johnsen's inability to get confirmed with the actions of the Serious Centrists in Washington.
Why the original “Star Trek” still matters
Andrew O'Hehir
Cheap, sexist and nerdy? Check, check and check. But the original Kirk and Spock offered an erotic, Apollonian beacon of hope amid the darkness of '70s culture.
The massive expansion of America’s “Hard Left”
Glenn Greenwald
Establishment pundits depict every idea they dislike as "partisan" because that's the only way they can understand the world.
A judge without empathy is inhuman
Robert Burton
The anti-Obama rallying cry that a Supreme Court justice must rule by reason alone is ignorant of how our minds and bodies work.
Roxana Saberi’s plight and American media propaganda
Glenn Greenwald
Abridgments of press freedom by Iran receive endless attention from the American press while far more severe abridgments by the U.S. are ignored.
You can never have too many mothers
Julia Wallace
Babies are what bring us together, according to sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, whose new book touts the importance of multiple caretakers.
“Sag Harbor”
Andrew O'Hehir
Colson Whitehead's autobiographical summer-nostalgia novel mixes nerdy teen boys and barbecues gone awry in this affectionate portrait of an African-American seasonal community.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Would you rather lose your memory or your money? HBO's "The Alzheimer's Project" and Frontline's "The Madoff Affair" unearth your worst nightmares.
“A lot more problems down the road”
Kate Harding
The murder of Johanna Justin-Jinich by a man who allegedly stalked her may not have been preventable, but let's not pretend it was completely unpredictable.
The NYT’s definition of blinding American exceptionalism
Glenn Greenwald
How we talk about the actions of other countries reveals the extent to which we exempt ourselves from our ostensible standards.
“Star Trek”
Stephanie Zacharek
Resistance is futile! And you don't have to speak Klingon to enjoy J.J. Abrams' joyous and sexy update of the sci-fi classic.
Obama is Spock: It’s quite logical
Jeff Greenwald
Our president bears a striking resemblance to the rational "Star Trek" Vulcan whose mixed race made him cultural translator to the universe.
I got canned for being drunk
Cary Tennis
It's two years later, I've been to rehab, but what do I say in the job interview?
Screw inner beauty
Sarah Hepola
Broadsheet contributor Kate Harding talks about her new book, why diets don't work and learning to love yourself at any size.
Mask hysteria
Kurt Hollander
It doesn't matter if they don't stop swine flu. Mexicans love them anyway.
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