New Yorker
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The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. Originally a weekly, the magazine is now published 47 times per year with five (usually more expansive) issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of New York. It is well known for its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana; its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews; its rigorous ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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(English)
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National
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Neutral viewpoint
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Condé Nast | private_corporation
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4 Times Square, New York, NY, 10036, US
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Ezra Fox
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Sep 17, 2007 - 2:24 PM PDT
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In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?
In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked ... -
Out to lunch
The week before last, two Northwest pilots overshot Minneapolis, their destination, by a hundred and fifty miles, apparently oblivious of their instruments and their internal ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
How different are dogfighting and football?
.......I had never passed out like that before, and I started becoming really paranoid. I went into a panic. ....... I started to lose control. My limbs were shaking, and I ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
It’s Always the Fixer Who Dies: Interesting Times
It’s difficult not to feel a certain bitterness about the death of Sultan Munadi. He was what journalists call a “fixer,” the local man or woman who helps the foreign ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty
The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas. Flames spread along the walls, ...via Dan Gillmor -
Answers to Questions
Justices make choices, based largely, though not exclusively, on their political views of the issues involved. In reaching decisions this way, Justices aren't doing anything ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Cocksure
Since the beginning of the financial crisis, there have been two principal explanations for why so many banks made such disastrous decisions. The first is structural. ...via Fair Spin -
XXXL
The human body is “mismatched” to the human situation. “We evolved on the savannahs of Africa,” Power and Schulkin write. “We now live in Candyland.”via Tim O'Reilly -
Enter Laughing: Al Franken joins the Senate
"He’s always had this amazing work ethic, an infinite amount of energy and intelligence and concentration, and now he’s finally bitten into something that’s really ...Posted by Leo Romero -
The Al Qaeda Paradox
Compared with their position in the period from 2002 to 2004, Al Qaeda and its affiliates, such as Jemaah Islamiya in Indonesia (which has been involved in hotel bombings ...Posted by Judy Plapinger
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Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli attacks?
rom the Israeli perspective, at least, the Gaza problem was supposed to have been solved in August, 2005, when Ariel Sharon, then the Prime Minister, closed down the Jewish ...via New Yorker -
Some Vaguely Heretical Thoughts on Health-Care Reform: Rational Irrationality
(Blog Post) With the publication of H.R. 3962, the House Democrats’ mammoth, 1,990-page proposal to restructure the health-care system (the outlines of which can be found in this ...Posted by Judy Plapinger -
The White House’s war with Fox News
In 2008, half the people who watched the Fox News Channel were over sixty-three, which is the oldest demographic in the cable-news business, and, according to a poll, the ... -
Reading the McChrystal Report
It’s not the Pentagon Papers. After all the noise and controversy, the assessment of the war in Afghanistan by General Stanley McChrystal that was leaked to the Post’s Bob ...via Google News -
Are Obama's judges really liberals?
The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President’s first nomination to a federal court. “There was a real conscious decision to use that first ... -
Zappos, the online shoe shopping utopia
Owning a large collection of shoes in various styles and colors has, in the past decade, gone from being considered a sign of ultimate imperial excess (Imelda Marcos) to a ... -
Health Care Hyde Park
Why do interests like the health-care industry have so much money and influence? I am convinced that the underlying cause can be found in the unique hydraulics of our ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Health-care Reform and Congress
Pretty much everybody who believes that health care should be a human right, not a commercial commodity, and who makes a serious study of the abstract substance of the matter, ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Priced to sell
At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Caveat Mortgagor
In 1937, the Massengill Company began selling a health product called Elixir Sulfanilamide, which contained one of the antibiotic sulfa drugs. Unfortunately, it also contained ...Posted by Leo Romero
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