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May 2015

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May 31st
- Aleksandar Hemon's 6 favorite books
May 30th
- Innovation of the week: Smart doorbells
May 29th
- What China dangerously underestimates about America's interest in the South China Sea
May 28th
- The Week contest: Love bug
- How Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson became the people's movie star
- 7 free apps to download before your next business trip
- Nick Offerman: We can stop discussing feminism when guys 'can legitimately complain'
May 27th
- Scott Walker defends anti-abortion bill: Ultrasounds are 'just a cool thing'
- Rand Paul blames Republican 'hawks' for ISIS' existence
- Barney Frank explains why big business is backing gay rights
- What today's teens miss about the tacky, terrible proms of the 1980s
- Americans have never had more choices. And it's making us miserable.
- 10 innovative ways to personalize gifts
- Senior Vatican official calls Ireland's gay marriage vote a 'defeat for humanity'
May 26th
- Rand Paul defends his protest against the Patriot Act
- Sally Mann's ghosts
- Art Garfunkel has a complicated relationship with 'jerk' Paul Simon
May 25th
- 15 local cuisines to try on your next trip
- 50 years ago, Jell-O wanted you to combine it with anchovies, tuna, cream cheese, and mayonnaise
- Ryley Walker's 6 favorite songs for making breakfast
- Game of Thrones recap: Why can't we be friends?
May 24th
- Nick Offerman's 6 favorite books
May 23rd
- House hunting: 6 homes in college towns
- Innovation of the week: Smart inhalers
- Michael B. Jordan: 'The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961'
- America's Alzheimer's time bomb
May 22nd
- Don't listen to Matt Weiner. You get to decide what the Mad Men finale meant.
- Ace British sniper on the trauma of killing foes: 'You're their god for that split second'
May 21st
- Obama on ISIS: Ramadi is just a 'tactical setback'
- Boy Scouts' national president says ban on gay troop leaders 'cannot be sustained'
- At least Nebraska's move to abolish the death penalty is philosophically consistent
- Is Laszlo Krasznahorkai about to be huge?
- Controversial Colour Branding Decisions
- How Shrek went from the world's biggest animated franchise to the internet's creepiest meme
- 3 things Hollywood can tell us about the future
- Can these glasses read your mind? A look at the Wild West of brain gadgets.
- Mad Men creator Matt Weiner explains what the last scene of the finale means to him
May 20th
- Bob Woodward: Bin Laden should have read my book more closely
- The top 10 moments from David Letterman's hilarious and heartfelt farewell tour
- Kanye West blasts the Billboard Music Awards for censoring his performance
May 19th
- 9 innovative products to make your business trip better
- The 7 best hotels for business travelers
- How wearable tech could change business travel
- Where does the expression 'hands down' come from?
- How America's churches can pull out of their death spiral
- David Letterman, my hero
- Late-night TV is obsessed with parenting. Yay?
- How to take a perfect shower
May 18th
- How to test run your retirement
- Chris Pratt sends his co-stars photos of his poop
- George R.R. Martin weighs in on that controversial Game of Thrones scene
- 17 'bon' figures of speech from Louisiana French
- The man behind Big Bird opens up about Sesame Street, Mitt Romney, and more
- Mad Men series finale recap: What the world wants today
- Game of Thrones recap: 'Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken'
May 17th
- Harold Bloom's 6 favorite books that helped shape 'the American Sublime'
- House hunting: 7 lovely homes in Pennsylvania
- My mid-life quest: Learn to dunk
May 16th
- Salma Hayek on Hollywood: 'We are smarter than the chick flicks and romantic comedies they want to sell us'
- House hunting: 7 spectacular homes in big cities
- The late, great William Zinsser: The man who taught old-school writers to embrace word processors
- Goodbye, Gwyneth: The biggest changes from this year's list of top baby names
May 15th
- Sheriff on police shooting victim: 'We are glad that he is white' because we don't want 'backlash'
- Innovation of the week: Direct drone delivery
- Mad Max: Fury Road's twisty, 17-year journey to the big screen
May 14th
- How the markets reacted to the new Tory government
May 13th
- Mitch McConnell: 'I love' being compared to a turtle
- How do you design a computer?
- America is running out of soil
May 12th
- My advice to smart, hungry college grads: Be born rich
May 11th
- 2 new ways to save money, and more
- This is what it's really like to win $1 million on a game show
- Mad Men recap: 'The Milk and Honey Route'
May 10th
- Freeman Dyson's 6 favorite books by his female colleagues
May 9th
- Rick Santorum on ISIS: 'Bomb them back to the 7th century'
- House hunting: 7 homes with beautiful natural lighting
- Innovation of the week: Quieter flights
May 8th
- Bill Simmons on quitting ESPN, in 2011: 'If it happens, I will kill myself trying to haunt them somewhere else'
- Tom Brady: 'We earned and achieved' everything last season
May 7th
- Election 2015: how will the markets react after polling day?
- Mike Huckabee: If trade agreement passes, workers would 'take it in the backside'
- Adieu, Paris
- Braids' 6 favorite soul songs
May 6th
- Bill Clinton admits he was too tough on crime, supports Hillary changing his policies
- Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon reveals the real reason he quit Twitter this week
- This Wi-Fi network wants to prevent you from getting cancer
May 5th
- Charlie Hebdo editor differentiates Muhammad cartoon contest from magazine's satire
- Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'Everything that starts with 'Al' in the Middle East is bad news'
- Boko Haram survivors tell of bitter, demoralized, poorly supplied jihadis
- How to protect your kids from identity theft, and more
May 4th
- What it's like to be a mother of only boys
- Can your smartphone treat depression?
- This new app could really help the poor — if it gets help from the government
- Mad Men recap: Trouble in Shangri-La
May 3rd
- Matthew Crawford's 6 favorite books
- Manny Pacquiao: 'I thought I won the fight'
- How Silicon Valley's billionaires are trying to defy death
May 2nd
- House hunting: 7 lovely homes on the Georgia coast
- Innovation of the week: A self-assembling table

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