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May 28, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Why Clinton Chose Maya Angelou to Read at his Inauguration
May 28, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Watch Maya Angelou Read at Clinton's First Inaugural
May 28, 2014
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
Angelou's flawed books helped relieve black writers of the burden of representing their race
May 28, 2014
Hua Hsu
Not Just a 'White Guy Killer'
Elliot Rodger's perverse sense of racial hierarchy—and his uncertain place in it
May 28, 2014
Alice Robb
IQ Scores Shouldn't Be A Matter of Life or Death
May 27, 2014
Geoff Dyer
The Tragedy of the 2014 World Cup: Gareth Bale Won't Be Playing
May 27, 2014
David Thomson
'The Immigrant' Raises Marion Cotillard to a Select Pantheon
May 27, 2014
Sarah Weinman
Novels About Famous Writers' Wives Are a Cheap Trick
Leave Zelda, Hadley, and the rest out of it
May 26, 2014
Andrew Saviano
Night Time
May 26, 2014
Eric Sasson
The Media Forgets That AIDS Is Still an Epidemic, But Hollywood Doesn't
'The Normal Heart' is a damning indictment of our government's negligence
May 26, 2014
Esther Breger, Chloe Schama
Dissecting Mad Men's Hopeful, Saccharine Half-Season
May 26, 2014
Alice Robb
Why Do Adult Romantic Partners Call Each Other "Baby?"
The evolutionary logic—and other meanings—of a pet name
May 26, 2014
Elliot Ackerman
Extraordinary Bravery on the Streets of Fallujah
"He lay face down, blood pooling around his waist..."
May 26, 2014
Sarah Marshall
Adjuncts Aren't Just Teaching College Kids, They're Trying to Keep Them Together
The unique privilege of being young, white, female, and relateable
May 25, 2014
Ian Steadman
The Dangerous New Scientific Racism
May 24, 2014
Anoosh Chakelian
Armenia Is an International Superpower—at Chess
May 24, 2014
Elizabeth Minkel
ICYMI: The Internet Has Ruined Our Conception of Time
May 23, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Jill Abramson's Firing Was About Gender. And Also Not About Gender.
Why we always ask the wrong questions about sexism
May 22, 2014
Alice Robb
Facebook Didn't Invent the Verb 'Unfriend'
But it has changed the meaning
May 22, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
Google Gets It: Video Games Are A Spectator Sport
Why buying Twitch, the ESPN of gaming, for a $1 billion makes perfect sense.

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