October 2015 Archives
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Roundtable
Save the Humans
Environmentalists are increasingly hugging people, not trees. Can solving climate change and achieving “climate justice” become the same thing?
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Sponsored Post
The Toyota Effect
At the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center eye clinic, patients were going blind waiting for treatment. “Sometimes when you work in chaos, you don’t know how to get out...
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Humans in New York
Honeymoon Sandy
A Manhattan wedding, a cancer scan, and the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.
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Opinions
Playboy at War
With no more nudes in Playboy, an intimate approach toward sex is being lost—one longed for by soldiers in war zones.
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Renoir Doesn't Suck
The Writing of Art
Protesters are clashing in the street over paintings. What is it, whether in art or literature, that makes one thing better than another?
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The Medicine Cabinet
The Loss
To understand everything wrong about health care in America today, look to a horrifying trend in amputation.
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Phenomena Understood
The Wayback Machine
How nostalgia works and why social media may destroy it altogether, or restore it to its original purpose.
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Profiles
Press Rewind
What one journalist learned by vicariously sitting in on David Carr’s master class—with only his teacher’s reputation, extant syllabus, and students’ recollections to guide the way.
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Personal Essays
Love in the Time of Catholicism
The Pope spoiled his trip to America by meeting with a Kentucky clerk. But his unheard praise of a different radical provides a silver lining.