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- Simon Rich on “SNL,” “Black Mirror,” and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler
- “They killed Kenny!”: “South Park,” “Lost,” “Batman” and our modern sense of heaven
- Quotations in the News
- NYPD’s needed history lesson: What it can learn from the Boston police strike of 1919
- Why religion unleashes humanity’s most violent impulses
- Obama ditches the centrists: How a break from neoliberalism boosted his popularity
- My Brightest Diamond: I think of the last song as the corpse pose in yoga
- Now they’re sliming Elizabeth Warren: Fox News tactics and the surprising water carriers for the 1 percent
- Koch brothers/charter school nightmare: “White kids get to go to a school with a Montessori approach while children of color get eye control”
- Beautiful songs about “dark, grotesque stuff”: The world according to Panda Bear
- Free speech and state power: Americans shouldn’t feel complacent about French hypocrisy
- “Your job should be to end war, not perpetuate it”: An open letter from one Army Ranger to another
- “To categorically dismiss the cartoons is to not understand them in context”
- “I had a hatred for my cubicle”: Nikil Saval on “The Office,” “Office Space” and the fascinating history of where we work
- Secrets of seeing God: The long, strange history of divine revelation
- “A puppet needs to project a personality”: The original Muppeteer on how the business has changed
