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  • Garry Trudeau On Bringing His Political

    Interview with Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times | November 12, 2014

    The creator of Doonesbury and “Alpha House” talks with Jim Rutenberg about his change of heart on Reagan and what’s inside Obama’s brain...

  • Pregnant, And No Civil Rights

    Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin, Op Ed, The New York Times | November 11, 2014

    ...It is not just those who support abortion rights who have reason to worry. Anti-abortion measures pose a risk to all pregnant women, including those who want to be pregnant...

  • Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan Memorial

    Andrea Denhoed, The New Yorker | November 09, 2014

    This week, Flannery O’Connor was inducted into the American Poets Corner at St. John the Divine, the “only shrine to American literature in the country”...

  • Garry Trudeau On Bringing His Political Satire To TV

    Interview with Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times Magazine | November 09, 2014

    The creator of Doonesbury and “Alpha House” talks with Jim Rutenberg about his change of heart on Reagan and what’s inside Obama’s brain...

  • The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

    Matt Taibi, Rolling Stone | November 07, 2014

    Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported – more on that later) to keep the public from hearing...

  • Sober In Stockholm

    Nathalie Rothschild, Slate | November 07, 2014

    Booze-free clubbing is Sweden's latest party craze...

  • "The Giving Tree" At Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered

    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker | November 07, 2014

    A strange thing happens when we encounter a book we used to love and suddenly find it charmless; the feeling is one of puzzled dissociation. Was it really me who once cherished this book?...

  • Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons

    Rich Goldstein, The Daily Beast | November 05, 2014

    Garfield the cat occupies an understated and often overlooked position critical to the history of televised animation...

  • Where The Hills And Hollows Are Alive With Music

    Chris Wohlwend, The New York Times | November 03, 2014

    Traditionally those mountains meant isolation, relieved periodically by gatherings for church, for barn-raising or harvest help. And the gatherings meant string-band music...

  • Inside The Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire

    Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone | November 03, 2014

    Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money...