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  • Creativity For Creationists

    William Saletan, Slate | December 26, 2014

    An evolutionary creationist evangelizes to Christians about science...

  • 'Ready For Romney' Is Amateur Hour

    Tim Mak, The Daily Beast | December 23, 2014

    Romneyland is abuzz over the new super-PAC -- and not in a good way. Why a 26-year-old with no ties to the 2012 GOP nominee and no campaign experience has them worried...

  • A Pretty Good Year For Government

    George Packer, The New Yorker | December 23, 2014

    Here's a consolation to carry into next year, and the next election: in 2014, the maligned, left-for-dead U.S. government worked pretty well...

  • New York Times: Prosecute Cheney

    Dylan Byers, Politico | December 23, 2014
     

    The New York Times editorial board has called upon President Barack Obama to prosecute former Vice President Dick Cheney for the torture of terrorism suspects...

  • Cuba Idea

    P.J. Bednarski, MediaPost | December 19, 2014

    President Obama’s announcement that the U.S. would begin to normalize relations with Cuba surprised journalists and the political world Wednesday. But it just could be, somebody in the White House watched the second season of Amazon Fire’s political comedy “Alpha House” and got the idea...

  • There's Nothing Like Train Travel For Tossing Together People Who'd Never Otherwise Meet

    Jennifer Finney Boylan, Salon | December 18, 2014

    I spent 17 days this fall traveling the country by train as one of Amtrak’s inaugural crop of “Writers in Residence,” a program that fills otherwise unoccupied sleeper berths with authors...

  • One Woman Is Responsible For Starting Nickelodeon's Golden Age Of Cartoons

    Lauren Duca, The Huffington Post | December 18, 2014

    It seemed like Nickelodeon didn't have any plans to start work on animation before Vanessa Coffey showed up in 1988...

  • The Lesson Of The SONY Hack: We Should All Jump To The 'Erasable Internet'

    Frhad Manjoo, The New York Times | December 18, 2014

    This month’s news provides yet another occasion for a friendly public-service reminder to anyone who uses a digital device to say anything to anyone, ever. Don’t do it. Don’t email, don’t text, don’t update, don’t send photos. At least, don’t do it if you have any expectation that what you say will remain private...

  • Should Writers Respond To Their Critics?

    James Parker and Zoe Heller, The New York Times | December 16, 2014

    Getting a bad review is no longer an elite experience. We've all been trolled, oafed, flambeed in some thread somewhere...

  • I Was Gang-Raped At A U-VA Frat 30 Years Ago, And No One Did Anything

    Liz Securro, The Daily Beast | December 16, 2014

    I was gang-raped at the University of Virginia. I was gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house...