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The Supreme Court Can No Longer Lead From Behind on Gay Marriage

The Attorney General From Brooklyn

The Midterm Elections (Spoilers)

North Korea Releases U.S. Citizens Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller

Trading Oil for Coal

The Unfinished Business of the 113th Congress

Business

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How to Make a Bestselling Book

Plenty of Work, but Nowhere to Live

Am I Not My Brother's Keeper?

The Company That Turns Plastic Bottles Into Fabric—and Jobs

The Mercantile: A Short Film About a Montana Bakery

Is Switzerland About to Revert Back to a Gold Standard?

Tech

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Are Americans Afraid to Talk About Their Faith Online?

The Good (and the Bad) of Twitter's New Bid to Stop Harassment

Your Spirit Animal: An Investigation

This Cyborg Cockroach Could Save Your Life Someday

The Brain Makes Its Own Ghosts

The Resurrection of the Dodo

Entertainment

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Interstellar: A Preposterous Epic

What Makes a Child an Art Prodigy?

Why I'm Optimistic About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Doctor Who Season Where the Doctor Wasn't the Star

Page Eight: A Brilliant Bill Nighy Spy Movie You've Probably Never Seen

The Newsroom Might Finally Show Some Self-Awareness This Season

Health

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The Caffeine-Alcohol Effect

Whatever Happened to Pharmaceutical Swag?

How Long Do You Want to Live?

The Latest: Ebola in the United States

The Brain Makes Its Own Ghosts

Facebook's Ebola Donate Button Is Admirable, But Flawed

Education

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Is a Global System the Future of Graduate Education?

What Can You Really Do With a Degree in the Arts?

Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart

5 Tools That Are Transforming STEM Education

High School Graduation Rates at an All-Time High

Is Being Good at Science a Genetic Trait?

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Left-Brain America

Sexes

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Why the Supreme Court May Have to Rule on Gay Marriage

The Dream of Country-Music Gender Equality, Made Visible for One Night

Pro-Lifers' Existential Crisis

Life as a Fake Beauty Queen in Small-Town China

The Supreme Court Can No Longer Lead From Behind on Gay Marriage

Would an Anti-Catcalling Law Afflict the Powerful or the Weak?

National

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Why Evangelicals Are Wary of the Government

Maine's Teddy-Bear Midterm Election

Ferguson's Toxic Police Department

How a Megachurch Melts Down

What a Library Levy Means to a West Virginia Town

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Global

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Life as a Fake Beauty Queen in Small-Town China

The Hidden Author of Putinism

A Troubling Letter to an Unbending Ayatollah

North Korea Releases U.S. Citizens Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller

A Doubling Down of Troops for Iraq

Jihad, by Cruise Ship

Video

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The Mercantile: A Short Film About a Montana Bakery

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How to Build a Wristwatch

A Steampunk Fairy Tale, Made From Vintage Cameras

A Portrait of a Brooklyn Hustler

Lights Out: A Terrifying Horror Short

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