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Road Worriers

With volatile gas prices, imploding suburban real estate, and an incoming administration, the New Urbanists seize their moment.

Are We White?

What's Your Problem?

How to poison your guests, and other advice

Quick Study

The mailbox monopoly; back to futures

Rampage

In the ring with Quinton Jackson: a profile of an ultimate fighter

A Cock Crows in Portland

The heartbreak of urban chicken husbandry

American Precedent

What's Your Problem?

Tropical print is dead, and other advice

A Boy's Life

What would you do if your son wanted to be a girl? Some doctors have a new and troubling answer.

The Lightning Rod

Michelle Rhee's plan to revolutionize D.C. schools

Why I Blog

The feedback is personal and brutal, but the connection with readers is intoxicating. [Web only: Video: "Your Brain on Blog"]

What's Your Problem?

Avoiding annihilation and other advice

About the Redesign

Song of My Selves

Psychologist Paul Bloom reflects on happiness, desire, memory, and the chaotic community that lives inside every human mind

Crusader of the Classrooms

Michelle Rhee, the young chancellor of the D.C. public school system, talks about her career path, what makes a good teacher, and her efforts to transform a struggling school district

Innocence and Experience

Casanova’s first orgasm, Hitler’s famous mustache, Bob Hope’s last jokes: for every thing, there is a season. Herewith a compilation of great moments in precocity, endurance, and procrastination, organized instructively by age

Distant Replay

How the greatest game in football history looks 50 years later, through the eyes of a modern NFL head coach

Is Pornography Adultery?

It may be closer than you think.

Primary Sources

Why we love celebrities; sleepless soldiers; Pakistan's policing problems

Football's Founding Fathers

Mark Bowden discusses the legendary Giants-Colts game of 1958 and reflects on how the sport and its players have changed in the past half century.

Virtual Adultery

Ross Douthat discusses pornography, prostitution, the pixel-versus-flesh binary, and the strange moral dynamics of a national addiction.

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a “college of last resort” explains why.

‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’

The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism [Web only: Video: "The Cosby Crusade"]

Primary Sources

Smoke for life; Wal-Mart hits a wall; red-light rewards; Hezbollah's hospitals

Weni, Widi, Wiki

Our correspondent visits Seattle with only the hive mind of the Internet as his guide.

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

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NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

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