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Sex, ’70s style
Amy Reiter
Swingers, short skirts, blowup dolls and big hearts: "Love American Style" taught a generation of kids about sex. So how does it look now that we're all grown up?
Attention, all you memoir fabulists!
Louis Bayard
In light of recent scandals, we will now require arrest records and stool samples from all autobiographers. And can someone fact-check the Gospels?
Let ’em duke it out
Walter Shapiro
The Obama-Clinton drama is good for voters and the Democratic Party. And bad for John McCain.
The “Rezko” game
Glenn Greenwald
Just as they did for a full decade with "Whitewater," reporters are now tossing around "Rezko" to imply wrongdoing without having any idea what it means.
Gary Gygax’s final quest
Andrew Leonard
The co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons is dead. Let's all stop playing World of Warcraft for a minute, and remember him.
“See, here at Fox we like to be feminine”
Alex Koppelman
On "Fox & Friends," the reason the network's female anchors and reporters wear skirts is revealed.
The iPod economy’s sad song
Andrew Leonard
What do sales of memory chips and iPods, along with rising bankruptcy filings, tell us? Nothing good.
Could I quit the drinking but keep the hangovers?
Cary Tennis
I may be crazy but I like that next-day feeling, as if I'm getting a fresh new start.
The certainty epidemic
Robert Burton
We all seem convinced we're right about politics, religion or science these days. What makes us so sure of ourselves?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
King Kaufman
Rename Wrigley Field? The horror! Ah, go ahead. Plus: Bob Knight, longtime admirer of TV analysts, becomes one.
Papa or the whiz kid brother?
Garrison Keillor
It's time to get out of the political boneyard where old hacks sit grinding their gums over the burning questions of 1968.
Various items
Glenn Greenwald
60 Minutes bombshell on Karl Rove tonight. MSNBC and AP ask if Obama is "exposed" as a "domestic insurgent." The U.S. continues to establish permanent bases in virtually every Middle Eastern country.
The truth about “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Beth Arnold
Family and friends of Jean-Dominique Bauby speak out about how Julian Schnabel's Oscar-nominated film honors and defames Bauby's real story.
Who owns that offshore sucking sound?
Andrew Leonard
Accenture gets a patent for a "rapid transfer of knowledge" technique. Don't expect rich country workers to applaud
Real and/or unreal: The economy is hurting
Andrew Leonard
While the candidates for president slug it out, the news from Main Street and Wall Street just keeps getting worse
John F. Kennedy, plagiarist?
Jerome Doolittle
If Barack Obama borrowed from Deval Patrick, so what? Creative "borrowing" is part of speechwriting, as Kennedy knew, and as I learned while working for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing
Glenn Greenwald
Will the 2008 election be dominated by the same type of small-minded, petty distractions that have characterized the last several decades of elections?
Too great to be good
Stephanie Zacharek
Does Daniel Day-Lewis' overwrought, Oscar-nominated turn in "There Will Be Blood" prove he's too taken with himself to surrender to a role?
Rock vs. jazz
Gary Kamiya
For just the second time in 50 years, the top award at the Grammys went to a jazz album. Do the two genres have anything to say to each other?
Narnia in neon
Sarah Hepola
Sid and Marty Krofft introduced a generation of children to freaky Day-Glo fantasy worlds with singing monsters and talking inanimate objects. Whoa, flashback!
America closes the book on intelligence
Laura Miller
Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.
Of Valentine’s jinxes and packaged gnocchi
Rebecca Traister
Ever since I dumped my eighth-grade boyfriend, I've been single on Feb. 14. I also couldn't make homemade pasta. Turns out, these things are related.
Shouldn’t my dad be told that he has Alzheimer’s?
Cary Tennis
He's a shell of himself, but my mom hasn't told him why.
Your baby, your “baby brain”
Carol Lloyd
Stress during pregnancy increases the risk of schizophrenia in children. If that worries you, maybe you'll forget about it soon.
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