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June 6, 2014
Elizabeth Winkler
The Science Behind #ThrowbackThursday
Why we derive special pleasure from the act of remembering the past.
June 6, 2014
Emmett Rensin
The Great Satirical-News Scam of 2014
The Onion is funny. These other sites aren't—and that's intentional. They're cashing in on your gullibility and knee-jerk outrage.
June 5, 2014
Hillary Kelly
In Praise of Reading Whatever the Hell You Want
Don't let Slate make you feel ashamed for reading books that you love
June 5, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
'We Are All Hachette Now' Is More Complicated for Small Publishers
Independent presses have a mixed relationship with Amazon
June 5, 2014
Darshak Sanghavi
A Bogus New Autism Study Claims Excessive Manliness Is to Blame
June 5, 2014
Sam Adams
Louis C.K.'s Best Work Yet
Bringing you the Magyar Pixie Dream Girl
June 5, 2014
Alice Robb
"How Au Courant I Am, Eating This Pig Face"
Why some foods become trendy, and others never take off
June 5, 2014
Rebecca Traister
The Slenderman Stabbing Shows Girls Will Be Girls, Too
Adolescent angst and violence are not the exclusive domain of boys
June 5, 2014
Joanna Rakoff
The Day I Met J.D. Salinger
June 4, 2014
David Thomson
Even Emily Blunt Can't Save the New Tom Cruise Movie
June 4, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
Watch A Salafi Woman Turned Atheist Get Booted off Egyptian TV Show
June 4, 2014
Dan Packel
Horse Racing Can't Be Saved, Even If California Chrome Wins the Triple Crown
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 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
The New Republic Staff
Rare Photos from the Romanovs' Family Album
June 3, 2014
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
History Turned the Romanov Sisters Into a Fairy Tale. Here's What They Were Really Like.
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.

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