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  • Today's No-Risk Kids Don't Get The '60s

    Richard Goldstein, The Daily Beast | May 13, 2015

    The Village voice's first rock critic finds that when he talks to kids today, they're entranced by the freewheeling 60s counterculture, but they hold it at arm's length...

  • The GOP's Iraq War Amnesia

    Peter Beinart, The Atlantic | May 13, 2015

    If Republicans want to blame America's foreign-policy woes on Obama, they need a 2016 candidate untainted by the disastrous hawkishness of the past...

  • Driving The San Joaquin Valley

    Aaron Gilbreath | May 13, 2015

    An afternoon with Starbucks customers in the armpit of California...

  • Caroll Spinney, Big Bird's Heart and Soul (and Body)

    Jenna Marotta, The New York Times Magazine | May 10, 2015

    ...It was around that time that he met Henson, who enlisted him to play two of the most central -- and different -- characters on "Sesame Street" : the pollyanna-ish Big Bird and bellyaching Oscar the Grouch, roles that Spinney has had for 46 years...

  • The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden

    Seymour M. Hersh, London Review of Books | May 11, 2015

    The White House's story might have been written by Lewis Carroll...

  • Recycled Drinking Water: Getting Past The Yuck Factor

    John Schwartz, The New York Times | May 11, 2015

    Enticing people to drink recycled water...requires getting past what experts call the 'yuck' factor...

  • Self-Publishing

    Laura Bennett, Slate | May 07, 2015

    Kim Kardashian just wants to be seen. This 445-page book of selfies might be her masterpiece...

  • The G.O.P.'s War On Science Gets Worse

    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker | May 07, 2015

    Last week, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, headed by Republican Lamar Smith, approved a bill that would slash at least three hundred million dollars from NASA's earth-science budget...

  • 'Wounded Warrior' Charity Unleashes Hell -- On Other Veteran Groups

    Tim Mak, The Daily Beast | May 05, 2015

    What happens when a non-profit that was started to help veterans becomes the neighborhood bully?...

  • The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

    Paul F. Campos, The New York Times | May 05, 2015

    Once upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs...