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July 2014
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- July 31st
- How to make classic pulled pork
- CNN anchor directs a very creative f-bomb at Fox News
- 8 secrets to steal from power networkers
- The Nazi smart bomb that inspired China's most dangerous weapon
- Singapore's ruling party runs into trouble
- How to make salads for reluctant salad eaters
- With the world in flames, why is the economic recovery still going strong?
- How The Killing survived two cancellations and ended on its own terms
- The Week contest — Poor door
- July 30th
- Why I hate cupcakes
- Confessions of an out-of-control penny-pincher
- This simple hack for slicing cherry tomatoes will astound you
- Recycling old land for a new life
- The best places to find love — and lust — according to science
- Today in history: "In God We Trust" becomes America's official motto
- How do you convince a millennial to invest? Ask this Harvard guy.
- 3 ridiculous myths about how technology is destroying your mind
- How the battle for religious freedom became a nonsensical free-for-all
- July 29th
- Pay yourself first: The habit that can help you build wealth
- Twin Peaks: What the newly revealed 'missing pieces' change about the series
- The 6 best low-cost smartphones
- Everything you need to know about summer desserts
- What's the difference between in- and un-?
- The mystery behind China's aggressive push into space
- The science behind Captain America's shield, The Hulk's anger, and more
- Geraldo Rivera: Women bring 'youth' to their marriages 'more than anything else'
- The 5 best and worst states for a well-lived life
- Why Texas' abortion rates aren't falling as quickly as everyone expected
- July 28th
- 8 recipes for a vegetarian barbecue
- How I learned to love the evil-looking earwig
- Comic-Con 2014: Everything we learned about Avengers 2, Batman v. Superman, and more
- How to trim $500 from your monthly spending
- Don't hate the 'poor door'
- Always right now: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
- Buzz Aldrin urges NASA to build a 'permanent' base on Mars
- 7 ideas from ancient thinkers that will improve your modern life
- The forgotten victims of the war in Ukraine
- Why all drugs should be legal. (Yes, even heroin.)
- Personal finance tips: The risks of medical credit cards, and more
- Are there too many good shows on television?
- Behind the scenes at small-town America's beauty pageants
- July 27th
- July 26th
- July 25th
- Are tax inversions unpatriotic?
- The week's best photojournalism
- What tattoos can teach us about modern fandom
- The strange world of USDA place labels
- House hunting: 7 homes for first-time buyers
- How harsher sanctions could help Putin turn Russia back into the Soviet Union
- How I learned to relax and embrace the plutocratic world of Thomas & Friends
- Why you should really take a nap this afternoon, according to science
- Why Israel can no longer let the Palestinian Authority be responsible for security in the West Bank
- Girls on Film: Lucy is the shot in the arm the superhero genre needs
- Ray Rice and the NFL's insanely inconsistent discipline problem
- July 24th
- How to cook a perfect rib eye steak
- David Lynch on continuing Twin Peaks: 'You never say never'
- Lucius' 6 favorite songs for starting the day right
- Can we use skyscrapers to predict financial crashes?
- The case for making computer science a high school requirement
- The next financial crisis is brewing right now — and regulators are missing it
- Today in history: The death of 'Blue Whiskey Van'
- Mick Jagger says he 'copied all his moves' from James Brown
- How U.S. special forces are preparing for the worst-case scenario in North Korea
- Why Netanyahu's endgame in Gaza sounds so far-fetched
- How the euro can still unseat the dollar as the world's dominant currency
- This amazing phone lets you text smells to your friends
- The Week contest — Private eye
- July 23rd
- A scientific fact-check of 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The secret to Gabrielle Hamilton's amazing grilled cheese sandwiches
- Britain has basically decriminalized internet piracy. The U.S. should, too.
- What progressives fundamentally don't get about traditional Christians
- Today in history: The death of a Civil War hero
- Why Peter Capaldi has a bigger challenge than any Doctor Who in history
- 7 common upgrades to a rental — and whether they're worth it
- A model, a murder, and the seedy underbelly of Shanghai
- Here's the schedule very successful people follow every day
- Your next summer getaway: An East German bunker
- Wish I Was Here is Zach Braff's latest exercise in painful self-indugence
- After Flight 17, do we need missile defense systems for commercial airliners?
- July 22nd
- Miss America: 'Being smart is cool'
- In praise of lard (and how to render your own)
- Is inflation really picking up?
- 10 burning questions you've always wanted to ask about investing
- How the slaughter of innocents undid the best-laid plans in Gaza and Ukraine
- Today in history: Lincoln prepares the Emancipation Proclamation
- U.S. marines get ready for the next Benghazi
- The rise of the global middle class is our best hope to stop climate change
- What these custom, 3D-printed earphones say about the future of consumer technology
- Genetic modification could lead to inequality like we've never seen
- July 21st
- How to pack a jar salad
- 9 things you probably didn't know about the moon
- What the Fed haters don't get about interest rates
- What Mario Kart taught me about economics
- 29 adorable slang terms for sex (from the last 600 years)
- Kanye West: 'I'm a porcupine. I'm a blowfish'
- 7 things the world's happiest people do every day
- Why I hate cupcakes
- 11 sweet and savory pies for summer
- Israel's invasion of Gaza shows peace talks were a sham all along
- Personal finance tips: How to invest in your company's shares, and more
- Israel has only two choices: Eliminate the Palestinians or make peace
- Finding beauty in the blur of the past
- July 20th
- July 19th
- July 18th
- The week's best photojournalism
- Want to contain Vladimir Putin? Treat him like a Cold Warrior.
- 4 smart takes on the Fed's cautious optimism
- How social media changed our definition of 'social'
- Girls on Film: Forget When Harry Met Sally. Men and women can be friends.
- Why charity can't solve society's deepest problems
- This biological pacemaker is all muscle
- Here's the last time Russia shot down a passenger plane
- Americans want the U.S. to act on climate change — even if it goes alone
- Corporate advertisers are hijacking girl power to sell products — and I'm totally into it
- Boyhood is the culmination of Richard Linklater's fascinating, career-long obsession with time
- July 17th
- House Hunting: 7 homes for working out
- What if The Purge was real?
- The Israeli army is a one-stop weapons shop for gangsters
- This spy agency is Putin's secret weapon
- The troubling lessons of California's death penalty ruling
- How 5 Post-it notes can make you happy, confident, and successful
- How Netanyahu turned a police matter into a war
- Why you should never, ever pack your kids' suitcases for them
- This is how we're going to land a spaceship on a freaking comet
- The Week contest — Bull run
- July 16th
- 5 affordable alternatives to lavish vacation destinations
- When U.S. history became a little less black and white
- Meet Cone, the wireless speaker that tries to make sense of 25 million songs
- This is the most influential American comedian you've never heard of
- Grouplove's 6 favorite songs for the open road
- Incheon: the next white elephant city
- Why Israel can't kill Hamas
- 10 cities booming with job growth
- The complete guide to grilling fruit
- The sheer terror of being alone with our thoughts
- 8 surprisingly fun games Uncle Sam told soldiers to play in 1943
- U.S. spying may cost the U.S. economy billions
- July 15th
- The best desserts to eat at your desk
- 11 classy insults with classical Greek and Latin roots
- History’s greatest gay general
- Today in history: Jimmy Carter's 'malaise' speech
- The truth about tech's sexism problem is even worse than you think
- Tracy Morgan: 'I'm okay, I feel strong'
- How to maximize your retirement account
- One small step for regulators, one giant leap for mass transit in Los Angeles?
- 24: Live Another Day showrunners on another season: 'All it takes is a story that fires us up'
- Our long national love affair with the American bungalow
- The Fed's stimulus worked out great (if you're rich)
- July 14th
- Nikola Tesla, father of the death ray
- 11 remnants of the Bastille you can still see today
- Get in the All-Star Game spirit with these 100-year-old baseball cards
- Introducing the iPhone 6, made in China by a robot
- The incidental surveillance state
- How to get motivated, according to science
- The real reason for Parks & Recreation's season finale time-jump
- How to turn tofu into 5 delicious dinners
- Today in history: The birth of the 'accidental president'
- Personal finance tips: How to protect yourself against lawsuits, and more
- ‘Roof knocking’: how Israel warns of airstrikes
- The progressive case for ending the minimum wage
- July 13th
- July 12th
- July 11th
- The week's best photojournalism
- How to make homemade graham crackers
- Maybe the world should just let Iraq split apart
- The boy who lived
- How 3D printing could end America's prison food crisis
- 6 things the most productive people do every day
- 7 language habits that reveal your age
- Girls on Film: The darkly sexual lessons of Nymphomaniac
- This is a perfect example of why Democrats aren't the party of science
- July 10th
- It's time to kill the word 'troll'
- These 10 countries account for almost all the world's 16 million refugees
- 12 creative ways to eat corn this summer
- Why Facebook should embrace polyamory
- What you need to know about the latest NSA revelations
- I married a spender — and I'm still paying for it
- How ISIS is gaming the world's journalists
- Today in history: America gets its 6th president in 9 years
- Where guinea pig is a delicacy
- Death to Pandora? A guide to the looming music copyright war
- The Week contest — World Cup
- July 9th
- 3 crucial money decisions for every decade of life
- Why Think Like A Man Too is proof that Hollywood fails black audiences
- Our 12 favorite World Cup words
- There was never a cupcake bubble
- Today in history: The president dies after just 16 months in office
- The Pentagon's plan to put robot Marines in space
- The catastrophe of Brazil's World Cup
- 7 quick ways to get happy right now
- Why I teach an entire college course on Beyoncé
- The return of an intelligence code word with a storied history
- The Wytches' 6 favorite songs of the moment
- July 8th
- These 6 countries are among the worst in the world for workers
- Why we should applaud ABC's handling of a Bachelorette contestant's death
- The battle for hearts and minds on climate change will be fought across generations
- Obama isn't killing coal. It's dying anyway.
- 3 reasonable criticisms of the NSA
- Finally, we know which country is the most useless
- Why The Washington Post's big NSA revelation is a bust
- How Maliki ruined Iraq
- Why Reading Rainbow became the most successful Kickstarter in history
- 11 brilliant life hacks from my cleaning woman
- A new low for liberals: Attacking Catholic nuns over Hobby Lobby
- July 7th
- Why Seinfeld is still master of its domain
- Meet the millennial who is a serpent-handling pastor
- 8 questions to ask yourself before buying a second home
- The useful versatility of the humble ant
- Why are food prices skyrocketing?
- Why I quit teaching after 33 years
- How to be more confident, according to science
- China thinks it can defeat America in battle
- This map shows the disease most likely to kill you
- Personal finance tips: How zombie bills can ruin your credit, and more
- The real story behind Deliver Us From Evil
- Aereo might be dead. But the disruption of television is inevitable.
- July 6th
- July 5th
- July 4th
- House hunting: 7 homes for boaters
- The exorbitant Kardashian-ization of American wedding proposals
- The week's best photojournalism
- 5 secrets to perfect summer entertaining
- Relive 238 years of American history with these 42 movies
- The 6 best parenting lessons in Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
- Girls on Film: Movies can help defeat society's female body problem
- July 3rd
- The U.S. recovery is real — and getting stronger
- Stuart Dybek's 6 favorite books
- How inflation nonsense took over finance
- 10 things you should know about money after 50
- Today in history: The Battle of Gettysburg rages on
- Zoe Saldana: There are 'better parts for women in space'
- Katherine Heigl says she did too many rom-coms
- The U.S. State Department has its own air force. And it's surprisingly big.
- 10 all-American recipes for July 4th
- Camera Obscura's 6 favorite songs for a drunken cry
- What is behind China's new belligerence?
- The Week contest — Lab burgers
- July 2nd
- Would you quit your job for $25,000?
- How to talk about money before you marry
- Rolling down memory lane
- 9 pieces of career advice I would tell my younger self
- America is only half-primed for a violent revolution
- What you can learn from the toughest leadership job on Earth
- The best hacks for grilling on a budget
- How to stop the epidemic of student debt defaults
- Why Seinfeld is still master of its domain
- 8 ways FIFA ruins soccer
- July 1st
- 14 refreshing summer drinks
- Federal judge: Arguments against gay marriage 'are not those of serious people'
- 5 silly things holding you back at work
- Why the Hobby Lobby decision is bad for business
- An annotated history of Ann Coulter trolling America
- The North Korean Army is rusting away. So it's getting creative.
- The new NSA chief is surprisingly measured about secrecy
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