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TNR Best of 2013
November 24, 2013
Julia Ioffe
A 31-Year-Old Is Tearing Apart the Heritage Foundation
Think Republicans have been making fools of themselves? Blame Michael Needham.
November 11, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Hillary’s Nightmare? A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies With Elizabeth Warren
October 8, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Andrew Wylie Rules
How the literary agent still makes millions off highbrow
September 22, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Scandal at Clinton Inc.
How Doug Band drove a wedge through a political dynasty
September 17, 2013
Mark Oppenheimer
Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument
September 5, 2013
Kent Russell
This Man Moved to a Desert Island to Disappear. Here's What Happened.
September 4, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Crimes Against Humanities
Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen.
August 7, 2013
Steven Pinker
Science Is Not Your Enemy
An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians
July 21, 2013
Noam Scheiber
The Last Days of Big Law
The money is drying up—and America's most storied firms are terrified
April 15, 2013
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Jonathan Cohn
The Hell of American Day Care
An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children
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March 22, 2013
Kent Russell
The Boys of Lancaster
There's a genius to the way the Amish play baseball
March 7, 2013
Noreen Malone
Thank You to the Author's Many, Many Important Friends
How the acknowledgments page became the place to drop names
March 4, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
"You Have All the Reasons to Be Angry"
A mine massacre and the fight for South Africa's future
February 25, 2013
Noam Scheiber
So Open It Hurts
What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz
February 18, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?
David Sedaris and a literary version of reality TV
February 16, 2013
Dwight Garner
Up Late With Clive James
February 8, 2013
Sam Lipsyte
How to Write About Sex
The awkward art of the smitten word
February 4, 2013
Michael Lewis
The Trouble with Wall Street
The shocking news that Goldman Sachs is greedy
January 30, 2013
Walter Kirn
What Gun Owners Really Want
I’ve owned six guns. I’ve drawn them on bad guys. I want to be understood.

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