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Nate Silver (MSNBC)

Nate: "I felt like an outlier"

Nate Silver
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne (Universal Studios)

How the CIA gets away with it

Scott Horton
Charles Darwin (Wikimedia/Salon)

The myth of pure science

Yuval Noah Harari
A detail from the cover of "Mourning Lincoln" (Yale University Press)

Lincoln assassination horror

Martha Hodes
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(Wikimedia)

Inside Lincoln's final hours

Richard Wightman Fox
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-50988p1.html'>karen roach</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My lonely phone-sex years

Philip Connors
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-50527p1.html'>zimmytws</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Let me fix your wounded heart

Rob Dunn
(AP/Doug Mills)

We are not a Christian nation

Peter Manseau
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Adultery for adults

Clancy Martin
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“You’re such a slut!”

Leora Tanenbaum
Roger Ebert (Hachette)

The day Roger Ebert saved me

Kenny Porpora
(20th Century Fox)

We never escape teen crushes

Lisa A. Phillips
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What a beheading feels like

Frances Larson
(Wikimedia)

Genius does not exist

Kevin Ashton
James Franco and Seth Rogen in "Pineapple Express"

Why marijuana feels so good

Gary L. Wenk
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1666885p1.html'>ptnphoto</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The dirty truth about Doritos

Patrick Di Justo
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Secrets of modern mercenaries

Sean McFate
Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in "Ghost" (Paramount Pictures)

You don't have a soul

Julien Musolino
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

This is why they hate us

Sarah Chayes
Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

The truth about Lyndon Johnson

Julian Zelizer
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George Washington, Robert E. Lee (Wikimedia)

Robert Lee's Southern tragedy

Jonathan Horn
(Comedy Central)

So where does Kenny really go?

Greg Garrett
Minnie Driver and Matt Damon in "Good Will Hunting" (Miramax Pictures)

Ivy League's meritocracy lie

Lani Guinier
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-102438p1.html'>pjcross</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My juvenile confinement horror

Mark Dostert
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