August 6, 2015
- Kerry sees everybody winning in the Iran deal—if Congress can keep its finger off the trigger.
- What Trump would do as president.
- The CIA said it was getting out of the torture business, but Panetta's correspondence suggests otherwise.
- David Graeber: To overcome the circle of violence, we must scrub our culture of the notion that cruelty is admirable.
- Ambrose Bierce's "devil's dictionary" updated for the 21st century.
- Before Ferguson, families grieved anonymously for victims of police brutality; now that grief is public, but no less challenging.
- The truth is I am not ashamed of my two targeted, nonviolent, singular and specific acts of revenge.
- Three employees of Rand Paul's PAC slapped with bribery charges for scheming to bribe an Iowa lawmaker in 2012.
- First appearances of Jon Stewart's many proteges.
- See also: Where Stewart went wrong.
- The pathos behind BoJack Horseman's comic genius.
- Social-media articles are normally about white teenagers—how does the rest of the world share online?
- New Yorkers explain the ways they like to experience their city alone.
- Sarah Hepola: Here is everything I learned in New York City.
- Straight men having sex with one another isn't historically aberrant, but so taboo that people assume it doesn't really happen.
- Remarkable five-year turnaround for theme parks culminates in a record-breaking 2015.
- Photographs of a young Oliver Sacks, including his weightlifting days.
- What happens when Oliver Sacks responds to your fan letter.