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“SNL” has Weekend Update trouble: What this behind-the-scenes story really reveals about the floundering fake news
Sonia Saraiya
"Saturday Night Live"'s news isn't working these days—and a look inside the process doesn't promise radical changes
“Until last week, the bride worked”: Can you tell the difference between the New York Times Weddings parody and the real thing?
Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Vows section is practically self-parody, already—but Selena Coppock's @NYTVows pushes the absurdity
“Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking
Paula Young Lee
At least one literary agency is putting out an active Twitter call for diverse pitches—will others follow?
Ainsley Earhardt will fit in perfectly at “Fox & Friends”: Check out some of the dumbest things the show’s new co-host has said
Michael Garofalo
The new co-host's track record shows that she's the perfect addition to the "Fox & Friends" couch
Can legal weed save the newspaper business? Wait — what was the question?
Andrew O'Hehir
As a new film shows, the Denver Post's pioneering pot coverage is no joke -- it reminds us why newspapers exist
NY college event with Israeli scholar who said only rape can deter Palestinian militants postponed after protests
Ben Norton
Hunter College students & faculty protested pro-Israel groups' event with former military official Mordechai Kedar
Thomas Friedman’s America: The New York Times columnist is puzzled by populist anger
Simon Maloy
Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz don't mesh with Thomas Friedman's obviously correct vision of America
Donald Trump’s despicable race-baiting: Why his xenophobic immigration platform is getting even worse
Heather Digby Parton
The billionaire is no stranger to ugly racial appeals. He's been doing it for years—but now he could be president
Lucinda Williams goes home: “The Ghost of Highway 20” and the “time warp” of the South
Scott Timberg
The singer-songwriter talks about her new double album, the legacy of her father and her love of dark songs
“They really don’t want this out”: The biggest Iraq War scandal that nobody’s talking about
Liam O'Donoghue
“The Burn Pits” reveals how a Dick Cheney-connected company got rich while U.S. soldiers got poisoned
No “last f**kable day” for Florence Henderson: What we can all learn about sex from the 82-year-old “Brady Bunch” star
Rachel Kramer Bussel
In our youth-obsessed culture, it still sounds revolutionary to hear an older woman talk about her active sex life
Gaga flattens Bowie in Grammys tribute: Technically perfect karaoke can’t capture his rebel spirit
Scott Timberg
The costumes were fun, but Mother Monster missed what was strange and risky about Bowie's work
“Hamilton” saved the Grammys: If you think you hate popular music, a tired, epic-length awards show isn’t going to help
Sonia Saraiya
The music industry is a horrible old fossil, and as it turns out, that's not so fun to watch for three hours
Shed no tears for Antonin Scalia: Let us not praise the man who gave us Citizens United and Bush v Gore
Paul Rosenberg
Scalia let the innocent die, trampled our basic rights, gutted democracy and gave us George W. Bush. Good riddance
My accidental, alcohol-drinking pregnancy adventure
Rachel Levin
If I'd known I was pregnant, I surely would have been a teetotalling, anxious, paranoid nervous wreck. Oh well
Our Barbies, ourselves: The new diverse Barbies are progress — but we’re giving them too much power
Arielle Bernstein
Applauding the new range of Barbies is easy—teaching kids to look beyond their plastic toys for self-worth is hard
It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk
Risa Goluboff
The victory against vagrancy laws was a partial one, but it reminds us there's still hope for justice
The pledge of allegiance must go: A daily loyalty oath has become a toxic, nationalistic ritual
David Niose
We make students salute national greatness for 13 years. No wonder Trumpian anti-intellectuallism is on the march
Too real for reality TV — or even memoir: The new novels that dare use fiction to reveal secret truths
Hannah Tennant-Moore
I wrote nonfiction to capture truth. But it wasn't until I started a novel that I really did
Virgins and heroes: It took a while, but romance novels finally learned that no means no
Julie Tetel Andresen
In early 1970s romance novels, no sometimes meant yes and a rapist could figure as a hero. That was about to change
This is Donald Trump’s biggest lie: Our politicians have failed — but businessmen may be worse
David Masciotra
Washington might be broken. But that doesn't mean someone from the world of Wall Street knows how to fix it
My drinks with a CIA mastermind: Over pinot noir in Georgetown, some hidden truths emerge
Elsa Givan
The CIA's top lawyer met me in D.C. He was chillingly honest about his work -- and what he sees as real threats
I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple
Ann Neumann
Trading the rights of some--the dying--for others--the disabled--didn’t make sense to me. I had a lot to learn
Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left
Daniel Oppenheimer
Hitch despised Clintons, religion and authoritarianism. After 9/11, he moved toward war. His flaw? George W. Bush
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