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January 16, 2012
Youth Movement

A look at some of Kim Jong-un fellow prodigies past and present.

January 2, 2012
So Many Questions

Some of the hard data that has emerged from eight months of rhetorical jousting.

December 19, 2011
Livelihoods of the Poets

Poet Tomas Tranströmer is having a good two week.

December 12, 2011
Tote Overload

Reusable shopping bags have proliferated so greatly that ecoactivists are worried about surplus sacks winding up in landfills.

December 5, 2011
Collected Invective

Herewith, an annotated selection of lightning-rod celebrity attorney Alan M. Dershowit's hate mail.

November 28, 2011
Of Mice and Memes

Three centuries of postmodern cat humor.

November 21, 2011
Read His Lips

The congressional deficit supercommittee is at risk of deadlocking over taxes. And for that, you can largely blame (or thank, depending) Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and his very effective anti-tax pledge. Here, the roots of Norquist’s ideas and style.

November 14, 2011
Obamanalysis

The latest entries in a thriving subfield: long-distance psychological analysis of the 44th president.

November 7, 2011
Bangin’

A hippie-era use of traditional African instruments has become a 21st-century political issue at Occupy Wall Street.

October 31, 2011
Smokeless Smokes

With cigarette taxes up and smoking in bars, restaurants, and parks now banned, a subculture has grown up around “e-cigarette” nicotine-delivery devices.