Google Plus is a failure, but the company can still beat Facebook.
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After her son was murdered, Judy Shepard's campaigning led to a shift in the law.
Frederik Broden
"Behavior modification" is making a comeback, powered by smartphone apps that aim to make us better versions of ourselves.
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Products from Nike to Lady Gaga offer a safe way to experience U.S. individualism.
Brian Resnick
What two teenagers, bitten by the rocketry bug, can tell us about creating a new generation of scientists and engineers
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The price of a new television falls almost yearly. Why are older ones so expensive?
Decades after George Carlin's legendary monologue, the law still can't decide how to handle publicly broadcast swearing.
Paul Fussell died yesterday at age 88. From the Atlantic archive, an interview with the historian, critic, and veteran (February 1997).
A story of two young students, torn apart by the brutal Syrian regime and reunited by the uprising against it
The network will depend on volunteers willing to donate lots of their own time.
The animals are valued for the environmental benefits of their gnawing and nesting. Can they help us adapt to climate change?
An unflappable lawyer, he could be a future attorney general or Supreme Court justice.
Perhaps Sarkozy was first to go, and the other two corners of the austerity triangle are next.
At Citi Field Stadium this Sunday, 50,000 gathered to discuss the Web's dangers.
How Gotye and other newcomers resemble past single-smash acts
The biggest tech IPO in history is turning into a metaphor of greed and hyper-optimism.
Even if race is only one of many reasons for why some voters oppose him, it's still racism.
Gallup finds the U.S. broadly approves of birth control, but not porn, cloning, or infidelity.
For the first time ever, the majority of jobless people have attended college. But it doesn't mean higher ed has lost its value.
Citizens in the country are headed to the polls today to choose a president.
Kickstarter Is the Hipster Home Shopping Network
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Revitalizing America through Innovation
David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more
