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  • Hitler, The Ben & Jerry's Of India

    Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast | June 13, 2015

    No, that Indian dessert named after the Fuhrer isn't an homage to his genocidal ways. Many Indians see the Nazi leader as a fool -- and the reasons why are historically complex...

  • Lost Brother In Yosemite

    John Branch, The New York Times | June 11, 2015

    Dean Potter jumped. Graham Hunt followed. Potter's longtime girlfriend snapped photographs. Then came confusion, hope and despair...

  • Is Reading The New Therapy?

    Ceridwen Dovey, The New Yorker | June 09, 2015

    Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist...

  • Separated At Birth

    Nisid Hajari, Slate | June 09, 2015

    How a few days in 1947 turned India and Pakistan into sworn enemies...

  • Language Mystery Redux

    James Fallows | June 08, 2015

    Who was the last American to speak this way?...

  • Reading Ginsberg Poem In Class Was No Mistake

    David Freedlander, The Hartford Courant | June 08, 2015

    Defenders of Connecticut teacher David Olio say one mistake shouldn't have cost him his job...

  • Life And Death In Brownback's Kansas

    Kai Wright, The Nation | June 06, 2015

    Twenty-one states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving millions of sick Americans without decent healthcare...

  • Grateful Dead Archivist Details Massive, New 80-Disc Box Set

    David Fricke, Rolling Stone | June 03, 2015

    The new compilation featuring 30 unreleased shows...

     

  • Inside Brian Wilson's Room

    Peter Gilstrap, Salon | June 03, 2015

    The famed Beach Boy opens up about mental illness, medication, manipulation and the movie about his life...

  • A Hunter S. Thompson Museum Is Planned For His Owl Farm Near Aspen

    Katie Shapiro, The Cannabist via The Daily Beast | June 03, 2015

    "I'm working to make it a museum," Anita Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson's widow, told us in Owl Farm's kitchen. "That's why these rooms have remained the way Hunter left them."...