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2013-05-17 20:05:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

+John Cassidy Roll Up! Roll Up! The I.R.S. Non-Scandal Moves to Capitol Hill
#irsscandal  

2013-05-17 19:40:18 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Shouts & Murmurs: Fifteen Reasons I Should Be in Your Band

2013-05-17 19:39:36 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

New Video: The life of a fruit vendor, as part of the "Making Money" series

2013-05-17 15:16:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Hendrik Hertzberg on counterterrorism and the legacy of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick

2013-05-17 14:48:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The Borowitz Report: A letter from John Boehner 

2013-05-17 13:39:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Margaret Talbot argues that, without reforms protecting the press and its sources, "we could be suspending our civil liberties forever."

2013-05-17 00:00:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Alex Koppelman on what the Benghazi e-mails reveal about Washington and lessons for both parties: "Sometimes the truth is embarrassing…But avoiding it doesn’t help." http://nyr.kr/107Ge6W

2013-05-16 22:08:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Amy Davidson: the #Benghazi e-mails scandal may turn out to be less Nixonian than Clintonian

2013-05-16 22:07:48 (4 comments, 7 reshares, 22 +1s)

10 cents: the estimated additional cost per piece of clothing to prevent disasters like #RanaPlaza

2013-05-16 21:04:02 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Our Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the question of likeability has been posed about their characters

2013-05-16 20:23:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

In the Janet Borden gallery retrospective of Martin Parr’s photographs of life in the U.S., taken over the past twenty years, we see the relationship that color has to many of the more absurd aspects of American culture. Parr’s saturated photographs highlight just how flamboyant and loud this country can be. Click here to view a selection of the images: http://nyr.kr/11Fbai2

2013-05-16 19:37:04 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

David A. Price on how Michael Crichton’s “Westworld” pioneered modern special effects

2013-05-16 18:28:11 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Paul Bloom on empathy, attractiveness, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

2013-05-16 17:47:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Gary Greenberg on the scientific backlash against the D.S.M
#dsm2013 #psychology  

2013-05-16 15:48:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Julius Genachowski departs the F.C.C tomorrow. Here, he talks to Nicholas Thompson about his broadband policies at the F.C.C., his hopes for net neutrality and spectrum policy, and more.
#netneutrality  

2013-05-16 13:56:57 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

The latest from The Borowitz Report...

2013-05-16 13:54:51 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Jon Lee Anderson on the soldier mutilation videos coming out of Syria, "a new weapon in modern wars-by-terror," which represents a "ritual is as old as mankind."

2013-05-15 23:45:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Ryan Lizza on the Benghazi emails: "The larger problem with the scandal culture in D.C. is that, because each example of government wrongdoing quickly morphs into a partisan effort to attack the White House (the same was true when a Republican was President), the actual remedies for the problems uncovered become almost beside the point."

2013-05-15 20:51:32 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Alexis Okeowo: A gunmaker in Nigeria
#Africa #guns

2013-05-15 20:50:36 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Benjamin Lytal on Fitzgerald, Cather, and the one that got away
#Literature  

2013-05-15 20:48:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Ryan Lizza on the #Benghazi emails: "The larger problem with the scandal culture in D.C. is that, because each example of government wrongdoing quickly morphs into a partisan effort to attack the White House (the same was true when a Republican was President), the actual remedies for the problems  uncovered become almost beside the point."

2013-05-15 20:47:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+John Cassidy: The I.R.S. and the Tea Party: Where Is the Scandal? #irsscandal  

2013-05-15 20:33:25 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

+matt buchanan on Google's new card design and the way we consume knowledge now #io13

2013-05-15 18:24:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Alexis Okeowo: A gunmaker in Nigeria:  http://nyr.kr/14oFNEX #Africa #guns

2013-05-15 17:28:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

In today's Daily Comment, Lawrence Wright looks at the softening gun laws in Texas

2013-05-15 14:11:39 (4 comments, 8 reshares, 14 +1s)

Today, The New Yorker launches Strongbox, an online tool for sources to anonymously send confidential information to our writers and editors.
#strongbox #journalism  

2013-05-15 00:05:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Cartoon by Barbara Smaller. See a slideshow of all of the cartoons in this week's issue: http://nyr.kr/10x3wyJ

2013-05-14 20:57:23 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Lynn Oberlander, our general counsel, on the law behind the A.P. phone-record scandal #APScandal  

2013-05-14 20:46:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Wiretapping the Web, by Tim Wu
#wiretapping #APscandal  

2013-05-14 19:31:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Richard Brody uncovers the Lost 1926 “Gatsby” Movie #gatsbymovie  

2013-05-14 19:27:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Daniel Mendelsohn: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the unburied in Greek tragedy #boston  

2013-05-14 19:12:18 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Why cicadas love prime numbers

2013-05-14 19:10:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Paul Bloom: The case against #empathy  

2013-05-14 17:19:08 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Patrick Di Justo: Why cicadas love prime numbers

2013-05-14 15:47:12 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Rebecca Mead on Angelina Jolie's decision to make her mastectomy public: Her decision "is bold and brave and admirable. It is what celebrity is for."

2013-05-14 15:01:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Amy Davidson on what the #APscandal and #Benghazi have in common

2013-05-14 14:38:57 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Idea of the Week: The #Drone Economy

2013-05-14 14:25:06 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

+John Cassidy: A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre of Big Brother

2013-05-14 13:44:25 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Jeffrey Toobin on the real scandal at the I.R.S.
#teaparty #taxes #IRS  

2013-05-14 00:15:19 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Shouts & Murmurs: Bob Powers imagines a love story, narrated by a subway conductor: "Attention: Your conductor underestimated the stubbornness of a lover not ready to let love go." http://nyr.kr/10utNxu

2013-05-13 21:57:38 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

+Richard Socarides: The Twelfth State: Minnesota Approves Marriage Equality

2013-05-13 21:31:44 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

John Cassidy: Between the I.R.S. and #Benghazi, Mr. Cool Gets Hot

2013-05-13 21:30:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Basharat Peer on the expulsion of +The New York Times journalist Declan Walsh on the eve of #Pakistan's elections

2013-05-13 19:23:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

James Surowiecki writes about the recent garment-factory collapse in Bangladesh and asserts that government involvement is necessary in order to improve labor standards

2013-05-13 18:24:18 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby
#gatsbymovie  

2013-05-13 17:24:56 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Has the future of college moved online? Nathan Heller on "massive open online courses," or MOOCs
#moocs  

2013-05-13 15:50:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+emily nussbaum on +Mad Men's Don Draper problem

2013-05-13 15:02:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

New Yorker Out Loud Podcast: +emily nussbaum, Sasha Weiss, and +Michael Agger on “Mad Men” #madmen  

2013-05-13 14:57:28 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley

2013-05-13 13:28:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hendrik Hertzberg looks at the U.S.’s expanding anti-terrorism program