In December 2006, James Fallows wrote about Microsoft's efforts to improve the influential operating system.
In April 2016, Alan Taylor remembered 1986 in pictures.
The year you were born, George Guilder argued that gender disparity in the workplace might have less to do with discrimination than with women making the choice to stay at home.
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Freaks and Geeks premiered in 1999.
In August 2015, Joe Pinsker wrote about the site's paid editors.
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The conflicts and displacements touched off around the world by the attacks have been reverberating for the majority of your life. “This ‘war’ [on terrorism] will never be over,” wrote James Fallows, a few years after the towers fell.
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In July 2013, Esther Zuckerman wrote about Lohan's attempts to re-legitimize herself.
In September 2012, Alexander Stille wrote about the inability of the Vatican to adapt to the new age of digital media.
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When 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, he ignited a tinderbox of protests that continue to roil the Middle East, and kindled the beginnings of democracy in Tunisia.
In August 2015, Alakananda Mookerjee wrote about what new Mars colonists would be able to eat—and how they'd grow it.
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