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May 13, 2013
Al Gore’s Golden Years

The almost president has become the ultimate Davos Man, a moral entrepreneur and richer than Mitt Romney.

May 13, 2013
Obama Might Actually Be the Environmental President

His climate-change policy has been an abject failure, says Al Gore and just about everyone else. They’re wrong. Here’s why.

May 6, 2013
Smoke Without Fire

A little company called NJOY thinks it has finally designed an electronic cigarette that doesn’t look ridiculous. But would James Dean have smoked one?

April 29, 2013
Them and Them

Up in Ramapo, the immigrant community and the growing population of Hasidim had eyed each other with increasing wariness. Then the Orthodox took over the public schools and proceeded to gut them.

April 22, 2013
Hands Off

Why are a bunch of men quitting masturbation? So they can be better men.

April 15, 2013
In Conversation: Robert Silvers

As the New York Review of Books turns 50, its founding editor speaks with Review contributor Mark Danner about the poetry of Twitter, hiding the Pentagon Papers, and how his journal of ideas emerged from the flood of �little magazines� as possibly the unlikeliest success story in publishing.

April 15, 2013
Does BuzzFeed Know the Secret?

Jonah Peretti’s viral-content machine purports to have solved the problems of both journalism and advertising at once, all with the help of a simple algorithm.

April 1, 2013
My Week As Robert Moses, With Oil Wells

An architecture critic takes up residence in SimCity.

April 1, 2013
Kaboom

They were young and in love and pregnant and partial to heroin and living in a Village apartment with a lot of heavy weaponry lying about. What could possibly go wrong?

March 25, 2013
The Glass Arm

Inside the art and science (but mostly still art) of keeping pitchers from getting hurt.