May 2013
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Shouts & Murmurs: Republicare in a Nutshell
What Is Republicare? Republicare is the non-socialistic, non-handout, non-affordable insurance program that insures health-care providers against catastrophic profit-margin problems. Republicare includes all insurance providers, lobbyists, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical-equipment providers, banks, savings & loans, and collection agencies licensed by Republicare, Inc. to take money...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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Idea of the Week: A Galaxy of Franchises
An interactive graphic ranking 26 different Hollywood movie franchises: http://nyr.kr/12Tj1UH
May 22nd
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Obama and Morehouse
Matthew McKnight on Obama’s Morehouse speech and the first black President’s responsibilities to African Americans: http://nyr.kr/10Syum5
May 22nd
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When You Shouldn’t Tell the President
Jeffrey Toobin: Should the White House Counsel have told Obama about the IRS investigation? http://nyr.kr/11WrWt1
May 22nd
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Infographic: Apple's Taxes
A look at some of the most striking numbers from the subcommittee’s report on Apple’s taxes: http://nyr.kr/12sEGCA
May 22nd
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The Borowitz Report: Obama Asks Staff to Start...
In a dramatic departure from existing White House procedures, President Obama requested today that his staff start cc’ing him on stuff. Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up on what’s going on around here.” —Andy Borowitz. For...
May 22nd
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Shouts & Murmurs: The Collected Letters of Marissa...
My darling David, Don’t let these earthly considerations stand in the way of our relationship. Getting to know Tumblr has been the biggest joy of my life. I have never felt so young, so alive, so full of hope for the future as when I am watching your metrics rise exponentially each day. Oh, I was looking at some of your photos online the other day. Please don’t wear your Google Glass when I...
May 21st
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May 21st
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Is the Next Xbox the One?
Matt Buchanan on the Xbox One: It’s “the most forceful attempt of any company yet to colonize your living room—to be the single most important box attached to your television, if not the only box.” http://nyr.kr/10jxM4A
May 21st
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What Yahoo Bought with a Billion Dollars: Hope
It’s too early to say whether Yahoo will screw up Tumblr—by making it ugly, by introducing terrible advertising, by obscuring its wealth of adult content, or by simply casting a pall over it so great that the site’s fickle younger users abandon it. It’s also too early to say whether Yahoo screwed up by buying Tumblr, whose explosive growth has slowed of late, according to Quantcast numbers. Or,...
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“The game seems rigged—and if it is, following the rules is for suckers.”
– George Packer on what America has gained and what it has lost over the past generation: http://nyr.kr/19YhKOk
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“The anti-drone argument that ‘Star Trek’ goes for most is not one...”
– Amy Davidson on “Star Trek” as a drone allegory: http://nyr.kr/13G1xxg
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 18th
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Making Money: The Fruit Vendor
Video: Rahman Khandker describes being a fruit vendor as part of The New Yorker’s “Making Money” series, which documents the different ways people throughout New York City make a living: http://nyr.kr/19FhSCk
May 17th
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May 16th
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Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert...
Our Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the question of likeability has been posed about their characters: http://nyr.kr/16CpZCS Illustration by Roman Muradov
May 16th
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May 16th
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The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Empathy Problem
In this week’s issue, Paul Bloom examines the latest empathy research and its role in policymaking: http://nyr.kr/135ouGr Here, he looks at how attractiveness influences empathy, particularly in the case of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: http://nyr.kr/13p9LX2 Photograph by Robin Young
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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Podcast: Emily Nussbaum, Sasha Weiss and Michael...
In this week’s New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Emily Nussbaum talks about the latest season of “Mad Men” with Sasha Weiss and Michael Agger: http://nyr.kr/19hb5yt
May 15th
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The New Yorker Launches Strongbox
Today, The New Yorker launches Strongbox, an online tool for sources to anonymously send confidential information to our writers and editors. Read more about the platform here: http://nyr.kr/12b4Byx
May 15th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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Angelina Jolie’s Surgery
Jolie’s medical decision says again what shouldn’t need re-saying: that a woman’s body is hers, that breasts are for something other than ogling, and that hard choices are made for strong reasons. Her decision to make her choice public is bold and brave and admirable. It is what celebrity is for. —Rebecca Mead on Angelina Jolie’s decision to make her mastectomy...
May 14th
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May 14th
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“So the scandal—the real scandal—is that 501(c)(4) groups have been engaged in...”
– Jeffrey Toobin on the real I.R.S. scandal: http://nyr.kr/19lLQLp
May 14th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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After Rana Plaza
James Surowiecki writes about the recent garment-factory collapse in Bangladesh and asserts that government involvement is necessary in order to improve labor standards: http://nyr.kr/ZUFySv
May 13th
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"Room" and Cleveland
Jon Michaud writes about the similarities between Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room” and the news from Cleveland: http://nyr.kr/15vSy5f
May 11th
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May 11th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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Harryhausen and the Expressively Imperfect World
In today’s Daily Comment, Adam Gopnik looks back on the work of Ray Harryhausen, a legendary filmmaker and titan of special effects, who died earlier this week: http://nyr.kr/132Dvc2
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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Shouts & Murmurs: Most Gwyneth
Did I campaign for my titles? Yes, I’ll be honest, because, as anyone who’s ever read my blog, Goop, which is a combination of “good” and “poop,” will tell you, I’m a firm believer in hard work and discipline. So, when I first heard rumors about the possibility of a People cover, I did start a whispering campaign.  In this week’s Shouts & Murmurs column, Paul Rudnick imagines Gwyneth...
May 9th
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Podcast: Rivka Galchen and Jerome Groopman on...
This week in the magazine, the novelist Rivka Galchen goes back to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where she did her medical residency, and writes about a doctor she had a rotation with, Dr. Joseph Lieber. In this week’s New Yorker Out Loud podcast, she and Jerome Groopman, who writes about medical issues for the magazine, talk about the training of doctors and about medical...
May 9th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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