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June 4, 2014
Kelsey Osgood
Why We Don’t Like Stories in Which the Mentally Ill Heroine Recovers
The surprisingly stable afterlife of the author of 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'
June 4, 2014
Dan Packel
Horse Racing Can't Be Saved, Even If California Chrome Wins the Triple Crown
June 3, 2014
Alice Robb
Scientific Proof that Google Is Destroying Your Memory
We know we can depend on Google for information, so we don't bother remembering it
June 3, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
History Turned the Romanov Sisters Into a Fairy Tale. Here's What They Were Really Like.
June 3, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Rare Photos from the Romanovs' Family Album
June 3, 2014
John B. Judis
The Last Time Fatcats Tanked the Economy, the Backlash Was Huge. Why Didn't That Happen This Time?
Explaining the power of 21st century plutocracy
June 2, 2014
Maia Booker
Haunting Pictures of Loneliness Along the Yellow River
Photography from the cradle of Chinese civilization
June 2, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
There Are Two Kinds Of "Sports Journalism." Only One Of Them Is Really Journalism.
June 2, 2014
Alice Robb
The Three Most Important Traits of People Who Make the World Work
"Invisibles" perform key tasks without seeking credit. And they're in high demand.
June 1, 2014
David A. Bell
When French Irrationality Was Deadly
The writers who fell in love with fascism
May 30, 2014
Esther Breger
The Boring Sexism of HBO's 'Silicon Valley'
May 30, 2014
Will Self
I Don’t Miss Smoking. But I Miss Smoke
Its chiffon convolutions and tulle thunderheads made perfectly dull places seem excitingly mysterious.
May 30, 2014
Elizabeth Winkler
Friends Don’t Let Friends Walk Through Revolving Doors Alone
What it says about your friendship when you find yourself squished into a revolving-door with a companion.
May 30, 2014
Mya Frazier
Maybe the Solution to Normalizing Public Breastfeeding Is Victoria’s Secret
The lingerie company once offered a nursing bra. What happened to it?
May 29, 2014
Mark Oppenheimer
Why Do People Call Ms. Maya Angelou "Dr. Maya Angelou"?
Against title inflation in America
May 29, 2014
Alice Robb
If Your Partner Can't Resist Extra Fries, That's Bad News for Your Waistline, Too
The cool new research on how lack of self-control is contagious
May 29, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Winner in the Kinsley-Greenwald Spat: The New York Times Book Review
Opinion journalism—which is what a book review is—can not be subject to some kind of impartial standard of correctness.
May 29, 2014
Ben Walsh
Self-Driving Cars Are Still Cars—Which Means They Won't Improve Your Commute
May 29, 2014
Alice Robb
If Your High School Friends Are Having Babies, You're More Likely to Get Pregnant, Too
May 29, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Feminists Killed Home Ec. Now They Should Bring It Back—for Boys and Girls.

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