- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Mar 6, 2013
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The story behind the story of the game that changed college basketball
Mike Lenehan's Ramblers aims to go behind the headlines about racial integration and the 1963 NCAA regional semifinals.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2012
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"Go ahead and drink as much as you want and can"
Make like the Finns and take a coffee break—it's good for you
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
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A Gchat about sexuality, gender, and how they're relevant to our writing
A couple of Reader staffers talk it out: Do we want to write about ourselves? Should we?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2012
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Death, despair, destruction: a few long reads
The Internet is for aggregation! The least you can do is read some good shit
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 20, 2012
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Three theories why corgis are now running the Internet
On the Internet, corgis are the new cats. Is Buzzfeed just flexing its muscles or are deeper truths being exposed?
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2012
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The art of blathering
An Atlantic critic rips "The Art of Fielding," a book he's not interested in
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2012
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Can this cliche be saved?
"Must be doing something right" is a cliche in peril
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 30, 2012
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Attention androids
"Factoid": you're doing it wrong
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2012
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Fighting in the streets
A recent history of U.S. mass protest
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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Feline fears, confirmed
Kathleen McAuliffe's "How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy"
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 2011
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Looking after our own
For better or worse, we all would rather handle nasty matters like child abuse in house.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 15, 2011
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People Seem to Kill Themselves More Often When the Economy's Bad
It's no big surprise, but we still shouldn't be complacent about it.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2011
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Sinker's @mayoremanuel Was Vital Political Satire
@mayoremanuel lampooned the real Emanuel's propensity for profanity, and was a vital satire of local politics.
- News & Features, Politics, Jan 27, 2011
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The Rahm Ruling
The appellate justices took on a thankless job, and no thanks is what they got.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 19, 2010
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The Washington Post's "Top Secret America"
The Washington Post reports a vast, invisible fourth branch of government has grown up around antiterrorism since 9/11
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2009
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Will the New York Times still be around this summer?
Michael Hirschorn, writing in the Atlantic, warns that the print New York Times might disappear as soon as this May, but his fingers are crossed for the online version.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 13, 2007
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Flaxseed donut, anyone?
Corby Kummer on trans fats.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 12, 2007
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Benjamin Schwarz on David Thomson: A defense of Orson Welles
Atlantic editor Benjamin Schwarz's inordinate praise for biographer and film critic David Thomson raises the question of what exactly Schwarz is extolling.
