Knead for Naught
After decades of perfecting a homemade bread recipe, a single experiment transforms a home cook into an artisan.
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A collection of 14284 issues
April 8, 2015
* US secretly tracked billions of calls nearly a decade before Sept. 11. * Kissinger: Rather than enabling American disengagement from the Middle East, a nuclear deal with Iran will deepen our involvement there. * The problem with saying “no one wants war” is that some people do want war. * Republicans keep wooing,
Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
Before he was America's favorite philosopher comic, he was just another comedian out on tour. And she was the journalist he wanted to meet.
April 7, 2015
* The difference between "immediate" and "gradual" lifting of Iran sanctions is millions of barrels of oil suddenly flooding the market. * The climate has changed: Earth hasn't experienced a below average surface temperature since 1985. * After centuries of decline, the Native Hawaiian population is surging,
Objects of Affection
A darkly pop sensibility turns familiar objects on their heads—so a toothbrush becomes erotic, and popsicles are strangers in a crowd.
April 6, 2015
* Flamboyant foreign jihadists star for ISIS—but muscle, discipline, and strategy comes from Saddam's old network. * From Garissa to 1962, when Kenya refused to let northeast corner of the country join Somalia. * Iranians joke about the nuclear deal. * Weeks after Gov. Brownback signed education cutback, some Kansas schools
April 3, 2015
* Half a million children are suffering the psychological damage of growing up in war-torn Ukraine. * Jeb Bush vacillates on Indiana RFRA only two outrage-filled days after he supported it. * Most of our water footprints are spent making the food we consume—one liter of coffee takes 1,120
May the Road Rise to Meet You
The traveling salesman would seem to be an elusive, dying breed in America. In Sara Macel’s “May the Road Rise to Meet You,” she hits the road with her telephone-pole salesman of a father, rediscovering him in the process.
April 2, 2015
* Arkansas governor to reject legislation modeled on Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act. * See also: Connecticut's women's basketball team is on a collision course with Indiana's RFRA. * McDonald's to raise wages and offer paid vacation to workers at non-franchise restaurants,
March 31, 2015
* Assessment of mortal threats currently faced by nearly every significant initiative of the Obama Presidency. * Governor, Indiana is in a state of crisis. It is worse than you seem to understand. * Douthat: There's no reason to think we’ve reached a stopping point once the florists and bakers