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Despite Web success, Obama loses Silicon Valley
Farhad Manjoo
Having a lot of Facebook followers meant little for votes.
“Because I love America … I have to now stand aside”
Alex Koppelman
Mitt Romney tells attendees at a conservative conference that he's getting out of the presidential race in order to support the "war on terror."
Old women got the blues
Carol Lloyd
A new study finds that elderly women are more likely to suffer from depression than their male counterparts. A drag getting old, indeed.
Salesgenie apologizes to Chinese, ignores Indians
Andrew Leonard
The New York Times reports that the Chinese panda ad has been withdrawn, to the accompaniment of a classic non-apology apology.
Should I move back to Wisconsin because my mother has cancer?
Cary Tennis
I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
Huckabee triumphant
Alex Koppelman
In his victory speech Tuesday night, a resurgent Mike Huckabee looked confidently ahead and took the opportunity to poke his detractors slightly.
Biracial, but not like me
Gary Kamiya
In search of his identity, Barack Obama took the opposite path that I did. But we arrived at the same place -- and I'm voting for him.
Gumbo city
Sarah Hepola
Author Sara Roahen talks about her love affair with the big, decadent flavors of the Big Easy -- from crawfish and beer, to gumbo, and deep-fried oysters and brie. All guilt-free.
I’m a nude dancer trying to finish my Ph.D.
Cary Tennis
I love being a grad student stripper but I'm worried about fallout from family and professors.
The end of menstruation
Tracy Clark-Flory
The drug Lybrel promises to free women from their monthly curse. But today it's a sales pitch that seems hopelessly outdated.
Will they call it Microhoo? Yahosoft?
Farhad Manjoo
Whatever they call it, stick a fork in them, they're done
Why Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is an act of surrender
Andrew Leonard
In the annals of Silicon Valley culture, this merger fight is a definite biggie. But everyone knows Steve Ballmer's real target is Google.
Blowback from the GOP’s holy war
Juan Cole
The 2008 Republican race has left a bitter legacy of sloganeering against Muslims. It may well haunt the party this November.
How looks can kill
Robert Burton
People obsessed with their appearance suffer from a biological disorder, researchers now say. But not so fast: It's still our culture that warps our brains.
I’m a high-school dropout in law school and I feel like an impostor!
Cary Tennis
Man, this is tough: How will I ever pass the bar?
Mukasey’s radical worldview is now the norm
Glenn Greenwald
As jarring as it might be, there was nothing new in any of the attorney general's answers yesterday.
Seeking the cellphone future, in Kampala
Andrew Leonard
If people want to share their phones, then there is profit in making phones that are easy to share
McCain declares victory
Alex Koppelman
In a speech, John McCain made the most of his victory in the key Florida primary.
Fragments of the Tocharian
Andrew Leonard
How did Buddha get from India to China? And what does a 97-year-old translator in Beijing have to do with it?
Don’t be happy, worry
Jerome Weeks
Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
Bad theater, good TV
Laura Miller
Not sure what to watch during the writers' strike? The giddy backstage sendup "Slings and Arrows" shoots for the sublime.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
King Kaufman
What are we talking about when we're talking about steroids? Not many of us have any idea.
The long-term stupidity of global Hollywood
Andrew Leonard
U.S. blockbusters get dumb to grab international market share.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Truth and consequences dominate HBO's strangely addictive "In Treatment" and ABC's clunky "Eli Stone," while Fox's demeaning "Moment of Truth" elicits ugly secrets with big money.
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