How to Unmarry Your Wife
After moving from a state that recognizes same-sex marriage to one that doesn’t, a couple’s marriage becomes a partnership, and they are suddenly forced into new roles.
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A collection of 14284 issues
Melt Your Television
A young abstract painter from San Francisco explains why Instagram is the best art critic of all.
July 14, 2014
* One year from today, mankind will make its first contact with Pluto via a spacecraft the size of a baby grand piano. * America's great pot experiment: Legalization in certain states has been more treacherous than others, and could end after Obama. * Berkeley City Council votes to give free
July 11, 2014
* Interviews with the border children. * The story of the largest slave auction in America, in Georgia on March 2-3, 1859, known as the Weeping Time. * How Patti Hammond Shaw, who was jailed with men who allegedly abused her, changed how police treat transgender people. * Laverne Cox is nominated for
Radio Maria
A new series where we ask a novelist to eat in a restaurant, then write us something that meets two criteria: 1) it is a restaurant review; 2) it is not a restaurant review.
July 10, 2014
* Three years ago the Arab Spring brought hope, now replaced by ruin—outsiders, no matter their intention, can't restore that future. * Female Syrian refugees face constant sexual harassment. * Dubai has unveiled its first state-sponsored construction project since the pre-crash bubble: an indoor city with hotels, shops,
Bang for Your Buck
Two dozen people—a banker, a sex worker, a pastor, “the World’s First Publicly Traded Person”—tell us the best way to invest a single dollar.
July 9, 2014
* Israel calls up reservists to replace those on duty in the West Bank, to free them for a possible ground invasion of Gaza. * Hamas fires long-range missiles into Israel, with dozens more in store. * San Francisco hates techies, techies hate being despised, and the war rages on between public
July 8, 2014
* To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Wall Street Journal shows how today's team would cover events of 1889. * See also: History of the paper's design. * BBC Trust orders its producers to stop adding "false balance" when reporting on climate change. * London's Oxford
The Influencing Machine
When a genetic disease looms, we’re more like our parents than we’d like to believe—and when we become parents, that fear only grows.