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  • Hilary Clinton Should Ask Herself: What Would Donald Trump Do?

    Jonathan Alter, The Daily Beast | August 18, 2015

    Instead of feeling embarrassed for celebrity-slumming at his wedding, Clinton should ponder why he's being seen as 'authentic' and she's considered 'calculating' and 'untrustworthy.'...

  • How Killing Elephants Finances Terror In Africa

    Bryan Christy, National Geographic | August 17, 2015

    Armed groups help fund operations by smuggling elephant ivory...

  • Selling Out The Newspaper Comic Strip

    Luke Epplin, The Los Angeles Review of Books | August 16, 2015

    Watterson was every bit Schulz's artistic heir, but he had little interest in inheriting the fertile commercial landscape that Schulz had so carefully cultivated

  • Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas In A Bruising Workplace

    Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld | August 16, 2015

    The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions...

  • ISIS Enshrines A Theology Of Rape

    Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times | August 14, 2015

    Claiming the Quran's support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery...

  • Tinder And The Dawn Of The "Dating Apocalypse"

    Nancy Jo Sales, Vanity Fair | August 12, 2015

    As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren't liking what they see...

  • Donald Trump, American Demagogue

    Jack Shafer, Politico | August 11, 2015

    The press can't get Trump right because they have so little experience reporting on demagogues...

  • The Universe Is Slowly Dying

    Ben Brumfield, CNN | August 11, 2015

    Goodbye, universe.You came in with the biggest bang ever, but now you're on your way out with a drooping fizzle....

  • Dr. Dre's Compton

    Chris Gayomali, GQ | August 11, 2015

    One of the first great Dad Rap records...

  • The Real Real Genius

    Phyllis Rostykus, Slate | August 10, 2015

    Thirty years ago, I helped inspire the lead female character in the classic nerd movie. I finally understand why some crtiics disliked its portrayal of women...