Scattered clothes. Runaway mold. Snakes coiled in refrigerator bins. Clearing out a foreclosed home, says <em>Harper</em>’<em>s </em>writer Paul Reyes, is always a study in broken dreams.
It took three decades for Barack Obama to understand the father who abandoned him, says <em>The Washington Post</em>’s Kevin Merida. He has spent the years since trying not to be that man.
Just a few months ago, the lions of Wall Street were earning millions and feeling invincible. Now, reports Vanessa Grigoriadis in <em>New York </em>magazine, they’re lucky to have a lousy government job.
A classic quandary inspired by an old TV game show reveals a universal human flaw, says author Leonard Mlodinow. Life is a series of probability decisions, and we
Writing wisdom fit for a fortune cookie is harder than you
Your brain starts shrinking at 25. Your handshake starts going soft at 30. At 40, your memory starts to slip. In a new book, author David Shields catalogues the myriad ways that our bodies gradually betray us.
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A lingerie store fires a staffer for being too buxom — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
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