Young employees share their experiences as part of a special report on the decline of the American job.
The Editors
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Daily Meme: The First Draft of the GOP’s Debt-Ceiling Wish List
The House Republicans released a ultimatum of all the things they’d need before even thinking about raising the debt-ceiling. It was a beautiful exercise in wishful thinking. As Jonathan Chait notes, “It is, uh, rather extensive, and really needs to be read in full to appreciate its megalomaniacal ambition,” but the Cliff Notes version: delay […]
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“Arrested Development” Gets an “Elvis”
And now the story of four reporters who lost their weekend watching all of Arrested Development season four, and the Gchat conversation they had to put it all together.
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A History of Domestic Terrorism
Since the invention of dynamite in 1867, ideological radicals on both the left and right have used the awful spectacle of explosives to draw attention to political causes, to protest policy, and to inspire fear.
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Looking Back at Pro-Choice’s Battles
Our best pieces from the archives on abortion and contraception, charting the changes in the public’s opinions on the contentious politics over a woman’s right to choose.
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The President’s Fantasy Cabinet
As the president’s second term gets underway, experts and activists look back and weigh in on who Obama should have chosen to serve, if partisan politics (and reality) were no object.
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Our Most-Trafficked Pieces in 2012
The ex-gay movement, poverty in rural America, guns, and the Supreme Court top this year’s list of our most-read pieces—and oh yes, that election we had.
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Afghanistan Sketches
Illustrator Victor Juhasz spent three weeks in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here, a sampling of his work.
