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Halle Berry still has terrible taste in men
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The actress's track record with domestic violence continues
Could pot stop breast cancer?
Allan Badiner
Medical marijuana is legal in 18 states, but it's clear we've only discovered a fraction of its medicinal potential
Meet a 9-year-old girl quarterback who loves beating the boys
Jennifer Doyle
Sam Gordon's athleticism has earned her national attention — even her own Wheaties box. But can she ever go pro?
John McCain realizes GOP can’t win war on women
Irin Carmon
As the GOP senator shies away from his remarks on abortion and Susan Rice, Patty Murray emerges as a Senate force
Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called afterlife
Mark Martin
A doctor says he proves heaven's existence in his bestselling book. Is that a symptom of meningitis or megalomania?
Hillary’s long shadow
Steve Kornacki
If she decides to run in '16, Democrats could be in for an unusually suspense-free primary season
Big Buck Hunter: Meet the world’s best fake marksmen
Alex Halperin
On the trail of champion virtual hunters
Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized”
David Daley
Andrew Solomon tells Salon how parents of extraordinary children find joy in difference, and strength in themselves
America’s forgotten war
Andrew Gumbel
Historian Jon Wiener asks: If the Cold War was a great struggle the West won, then where are all the monuments?
Was Jack Kerouac really a hack?
Joseph Lapin
As "On the Road" prepares to hit the big screen, a writer reassesses the novel with the Beat's friends and critics
Stop obsessing over the budget deficit!
Robert Reich
We can't dimiss the "fiscal cliff" outright, but the truth is it's not even our most pressing economic issue
Courage and malfeasance in Afghanistan: “Anyone we drop off will die”
Jake Tapper
Officers ordered an Afghanistan outpost built knowing it was vulnerable. Then the Taliban arrived and soldiers died
What can we learn from freestyle rappers?
Kevin Charles Redmon
A new brain study reveals they may hold the key to enhanced creativity
When sci-fi went mainstream
Lee Konstantinou
How did the novels of Anthony Burgess and George Orwell anticipate a new literary subgenre
Erdrich wins her first National Book Award
Hillel Italie
Writers Louise Erdrich and Katherine Boo were among this year's recipients for the prestigious award
David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive
David Simon
David Petraeus' resignation is more proof that the media's prurient fixation on sex is hypocritical and inane
Liberals need Nancy
Alex Seitz-Wald
With the fiscal cliff looming, they should be thankful that Pelosi stayed on as Democratic leader
When I became a junkie
Amy Dresner
A guy I met in rehab shot me up for the first time. Then the needle and I had a love affair all our own
Prosecutors want death penalty for Afghan massacre soldier
Natasha Lennard
Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 civilians, including nine children
Mel Brooks: “The only weapon I’ve got is comedy”
Stephen Deusner
How did the iconic comic become the king of unmakable jokes? "The job was open," he says. "Nobody was doing it"
Phony school “reform” agenda takes a beating
David Sirota
The media barely noticed, but voters in three states rejected the profit-driven fraud that is education "reform"
Four more years — of gridlock!
Tom Engelhardt
Six billion dollars of campaign spending later, America is right back where it started
Things we lost in a hurricane
Janet Steen
Sandy's destruction offered yet another punishing reminder of how ephemeral the art we produce truly is
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