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March 5, 2012
The Case(s) Against Law School

Whereas, many legal degrees are no longer worth the paper they’re printed on; and whereas, the institutes issuing those J.D.’s might be inflating their job-placement rates; and whereas, a lot of unemployed graduates feel cheated out of the lives they thought they’d been promised; now, therefore, be it resolved: They had no choice but to sue.

March 15, 2012
Best of New York 2012

Where can a person find the perfect pair of tangerine-colored jeans? A reliable reupholstery shop? A good cup of chawanmushi? Those are the kinds of questions we ask ourselves every year when we set out on the grand quest to identify the finest of just about everything this sprawling, ADD-inducing city has to offer.

March 12, 2012
�When in Doubt, Seduce�

Mike Nichols� director of the new revival of Death of a Salesman�has always had a knack for making people cry, or laugh until they cry, or both.

March 5, 2012
Those Fabulous Confabs

Smart talk has never been such a valuable commodity. It’s spawned conferences like TED, Davos, and now a slew of upstart competitors. It has made the eighteen‑minute TED lecture a viral online phenomenon. But are we running out of things to say?

March 5, 2012
The Lost Party

The strangest primary season in memory reveals a GOP that’s tearing itself apart.

March 5, 2012
2012 or Never

Republicans are worried this election could be their last chance to stop history. This is fear talking. But not paranoia.

March 5, 2012
Björk’s Big Bang

Don’t be frightened, says the Icelandic singer turned professor of science and musicology. Even that gravity harp won’t kill you.

February 20, 2012
Dirty Sexy History

This month’s Love Lust features iconic bad girls, like Mae West and Madonna, and the evolution of lingerie.

February 13, 2012
WorldStar, Baby!

An underground hip-hop blog has become an alterna-YouTube, where slick rap videos and grainy footage of subway brawls and mall fights get over a million views a day.

February 13, 2012
The Virgin Father

Trent Arsenault has never had sex, but he’s the father of fifteen children�and counting. The more he antagonizes the FDA, and unnerves television audiences across America, the more his in-box is flooded with requests for his sperm.