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We won't post new stories on this page every day, but whenever we do put something up you have our word: It will be about the strip. Guaranteed.
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David Carr's Last Word On Journalism, Aimed At Students
“I love the current future of journalism we are living through and care desperately about getting my students ready to prosper in this new place..."
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The Snakes That Ate Florida
Enormous Burmese pythons have invaded South Florida. They're gobbling up all the animals -- then heading north...
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What I'd Tell Brian Williams
A few words of advice from someone who's been there...
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A Painting A Day
On Kawara, the subject of a vast and elegant retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, was born in Japan and lived very, very quietly in Manhattan for fifty years until his death, last June, at the age of eighty-on -- or, rather, the age of twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-one days, by the form of reckoning that he preferred...
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Obama's Forever War Starts Now
The White House's proposed legal authorization for a war against the Islamic State may haunt U.S. foreign policy for years to come...
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Lynching As Racial Terrorism
It is important to remember that the hangings, burnings and dismemberments of black American men, women and children that were relatively common in this country between the Civil War and World War II were often public events....
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The Monarch Massacre: Nearly A Billion Butterflies Have Vanished
Threatened animals like elephants, porpoises and lions grab all the headlines, but what's happening to Monarch butterflies is nothing short of a massacre...
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Doonesbury And Pandora
"We’ve got a lot of press coverage over the years — in print, on screen, etc. The only press hit that materially changed our growth trajectory was Doonesbury"...
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Evolution Works In Fast, Localized, Mysterious Ways
When I first stepped foot on California's picturesque Santa Cruz Island, I was in awe. The foxes were tame, the jays were supersized, and the wildflowers grew like trees...
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Brian Williams And The God Complex
Brian Williams, the NBC News anchor, is taking himself off the air for, what he says will be, "several days."...