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Editor's Letter
feature On cabals, chaos, and collective madness
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feature When did “politics” become a dirty word?
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feature Barack Obama and generational transcendence
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feature I remember the day my mother single-handedly ruined rock ’n’ roll for my brother and me.
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feature In the Bronx, a bumpy season has been cushioned by nostalgia as the Yankees play their final games at Yankee Stadium before moving to a new stadium next year. A few miles south, in the Borough of Queens, a less-heralded stadium also faces demise.
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feature Political issues that have fallen off the map.
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feature For the first time since I set my heart on a Wham-O Air Blaster back in 1962, I know exactly what I want for Christmas: A cell phone jammer. It’s the hot gift item this year, The New York Times reports, with one British manufacturer logging more than 2,00
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feature Want proof that the TV writers’ strike is really over? Saturday Night Live is back in the controversy business. In its first new show of the year, SNL chose non-black cast member Fred Armisen to portray Barack Obama in a presidential debate skit. It wasn’
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feature Another week, another massacre. Last week, a mentally ill young man armed with three handguns and a pump-action shotgun began firing inside a crowded auditorium at Northern Illinois University, but he managed to kill “only” five people and wound 16 before
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feature Hillary Clinton has accused Barack Obama of “plagiarism” for lifting several lines of a speech from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Obama’s defense is that Patrick is a friend who himself had urged Obama to use the passage—which, ironically enough, quot
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feature My wife and I were surprised some years ago when my younger daughter, Jessica, was born with blue eyes. We both have brown. I remembered enough from high school biology to deduce that both of us had inherited a recessive blue-eye gene from our parents; in
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feature It’s harder than ever to find a spot on Earth that hasn’t been turned into a marketing opportunity. Everything from park benches to high school gymnasiums now comes with commercial sponsors, and ads have been popping up in restaurant bathrooms and even at
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feature The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed are causing trouble again. First published by a Danish newspaper in 2005, the 12 satirical editorial cartoons were intended as a challenge to Islamic extremists: Don’t tell us what we can and can’t print. Some of the i
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feature Thomas Jefferson may have impregnated one of his slaves. Warren Harding had liaisons with his mistress in an Oval Office closet. FDR’s mistress—one of two during his marriage—was with him when he died.
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