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Iris Murdoch’s Tangled Life and Letters

A new collection of the novelist’s correspondence reveals her overlapping, passionate relationships.

By Miranda Popkey

January 7, 2016

Planned Parenthood just made its first ever presidential primary endorsement.

Maggie Foucault | 32 minutes ago

Major League Soccer wants to be taken seriously, so it sold part of its newest expansion to Will Ferrell.

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Iranians are no longer allowed to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Elaine Teng | 2 hours ago

Here’s what we now know about last weekend’s immigration raids.

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The Internet Isn’t Obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence. “The Internet” Doesn’t Exist.

By Navneet Alang

January 7, 2016

The Language of Sleep

By Sarah Green

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It’s Too Late for a Two-State Solution in Israel-Palestine

By Padraig O'Malley

January 7, 2016

Ted Cruz Is All Alone

By Jeet Heer

January 7, 2016

Ted Cruz Is Exactly What the Political System Needs

Why Republicans and Democrats alike should welcome his nomination.

By Brian Beutler

January 7, 2016

Is it Time for France to Abandon Laïcité?

By Elizabeth Winkler

January 7, 2016

The Democratic Party in the South Has Changed for Good

By Michael A. Cooper Jr.

January 7, 2016

Why Do We Keep Comparing Trump and Sanders?

By Elizabeth Bruenig

January 6, 2016

A Small Norwegian City Might Hold the Answer to Beating Winter Blues

By Kari Leibowitz

January 6, 2016

Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated Shakespeare

In her new novel, based on ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ Winterson asks if we’re doomed to tell the same story forever.

By Malcolm Harris

January 5, 2016

Making a Murderer and the New True Crime

Netflix’s complex story of injustice makes us better citizens—and perhaps even more effective jurors.

By Sarah Marshall

January 6, 2016

Has Obama Hit His Limit on Gun Control?

By Rebecca Leber

January 6, 2016

Where’s Literature’s Class Diversity?

By Phoebe Maltz Bovy

January 6, 2016

How Gay Marriage’s Triumph Could Protect Abortion Rights

By David H. Gans

January 6, 2016

The Secret to All Great Art Forgeries

By Jeff Taylor

January 6, 2016

Our Most Anticipated Movies of 2016

Reboots, remakes, and the return of Malick, Spielberg, and Scorsese.

By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch

January 6, 2016
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