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  • Learning From Animal Friendships

    Erica Goode, The New York Times | January 27, 2015

    A goat frolics with a baby rhinoceros. A pig nestles up to a house cat. A rat snake makes nice with the dwarf hamster originally intended as its lunch...

  • Tumbling Into The Screen

    Dana Stevens, Slate | January 28, 2015

    How watching movies with my daughter changed the way I thought about film...

  • End Of An Era For PDI As DreamWorks Animation Closes Studio

    Marc Graser, Variety | January 26, 2015

    Facility could have used a hit...

  • The Day Carlos Santana Met Miles Davis

    Carlos Santana | January 25, 2015

    In an excerpt from his autobiography, The Universal Tone, Carlos Santana describes how he met and befriended Miles Davis and the stages and music they shared...

  • How Europe Won The '70s War On Terror

    Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast | January 25, 2015

    From the Red Brigaes to ISIS, Aldo Moro to Charlie Hebdo, lessons learned an unlearned...

  • Guantanamo Prisoner Diary

    Britta Sandberg, Spiegel | January 21, 2015

    Mauritanian national

    Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been held at Guantanamo for 12 years now without trial and despite a dearth of evidence. A diary he kept of his torture is now being published around the world. Spiegel presents some excerpts...

  • A Tiny Press Printed Only 15,000 Copies Of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Autobiography. Big Mistake.

    Laura Putre, Browbeat, Slate's Culture Blog | January 20, 2015

    “Everyone keeps saying, ‘Where’s my copy, where’s my copy?’ ” says Sandra Hume, writer for the Beyond Little House blog and co-founder of the biennial “LauraPalooza,” a festival of all things Ingalls...

  • Cartoon: Charlie Hebd'overload

    Tom Tomorrow, Comics via Daily Kos | January 19, 2015

    Charlie Hebd'overload: Notes from the week that was...

  • In The Crosshairs

    Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker | January 19, 2015

    The story behind American Sniper...

  • The Men Who Haunted Me As A Child

    Ernesto Londono, The New York Times Opinion | January 18, 2015

    Growing up in Columbia, I imagined being kidnapped as the only way to end up face-to-face with militants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, a Marxist-inspired group that has battled the government for over half a century...