Best Columns - US
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The joys of living alone
feature It may not be for everyone, but going solo has clearly become a viable option, said Eric Klinenberg at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: Juliette Kayyem
feature From The Boston Globe: “It is now clear that the Tsarnaev brothers had no strategic plan but to kill in a very public fashion....
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Steve Jobs’s final moments
feature Just before he closed his eyes for the last time, the man who spent his life in search of beauty looked past those of us at his bedside at something only he could see, said Mona Simpson at The New York Times.
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Joe Paterno’s side of the story
feature At Penn State, Paterno was known to exert “iron control” over anything concerning his football program, said Andrew Cohen at TheAtlantic.com.
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Why doctors refuse heroic medical care
feature Like most doctors, I have made it clear that when my time comes, “I will go gently into that good night,” said Ken Murray at The Wall Street Journal.
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We need a new national anthem
feature “Anything would be better than those ‘bombs bursting in air,’” especially since they usually arrive off-key, said Michael Kinsley in The Washington Post.
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The truth about ‘secular’ America
feature As America has become more secular in recent decades, “most indicators of moral and social health have gotten better, not worse,” said Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune.
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Stop whining and pay your taxes
feature 'Tis the season
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Dehumanizing Hispanics as ‘illegals’
feature It’s “the latest in a long line of euphemisms that politicians use to signal their antipathy to a reviled racial or ethnic group, in this case, Latinos,” said Peter Beinart at TheDailyBeast.com.
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The Mormon threat to evangelicals
feature Simply put, evangelicals see the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “competition’’ for souls—and dues-paying members, said David S. Reynolds at NYTimes.com.
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A House that’s stuck in the 1950s
feature The House of Representatives doesn’t represent America as it really is today.
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5 smart reads for the weekend
feature An investigation into Junior Seau's tragic suicide. A profile of the brother-and-sister team behind Cloud Atlas. And more compelling, of-the-moment stories to dive into
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The false benevolence of Mother Nature
feature Our beloved Earth, it turns out, is quite a nasty place, said Drake Bennett in The Boston Globe.
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Laughing off the horrors of prison rape
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