Editors' Favorites From 2013
The staff choose their most-liked pieces published in 2013: a trip to Patsy Cline's divided hometown, the complete biography of North West, a cold case of hit-and-run, and no shortage of great quotes about dead bodies.
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A collection of 14285 issues
2013 Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers
Grandma got run over by a reindeer. Which is just as well, because she wouldn't have liked the gift you bought for her at the last minute. Gift ideas for the ungifted.
December 24, 2013
* Charity Navigator offers a holiday giving guide and tools to evaluate charities' ethics and effectiveness. * The Equal Justice Initiative believes the opposite of poverty is not wealth—it's justice. * Habitat for Humanity Greater Los Angeles works everyday to fight the affordable housing crisis. * GiveDirectly will, as its
December 23, 2013
* Marks & Spencer prompts outrage after allowing Muslim employees to refuse selling customers pork and alcohol. * Following the Target breach, Chase would rather limit cardholders' purchases than invest in real security. * Why Snapchat matters: Because an erasable internet is a comfort that's the polar opposite of Facebook.
Human Interest Story
In the “visibleInvisible” series, a pediatrician-photographer takes luminous portraits of people considered to be outside beauty’s dominant ideal.
The Top Albums of 2013
A full calendar year of only listening to music that was released in 2013 comes down to this: The Morning News Editor's Choice Awards for the 19 best albums of the year.
December 20, 2013
* Obama stays home and instead sends three openly gay athletes as part of his Olympic delegation to Sochi. * Billboard in Coimbatore, India commemorates Morgan Freeman instead of Nelson Mandela. * Lapham: "All jokes are inside jokes and the butts of them are us, the only animal that laughs, but also
December 19, 2013
* Obama's panel says the NSA shouldn't collect phone data, but critics see a path to continue untargeted spying. * Drone strike kills a dozen and injures more at a wedding in Yemen—the kind of strike that fuels rather than diminishes al Qaeda. * Patriarch of Duck Dynasty
Greetings From Sloane-10b
As New York real estate prices skyrocket, it’s time to head where no gentrifier has gone before.
December 18, 2013
* This November was the warmest one since 1880; in fact, the 10 warmest Novembers on record have happened in the past 15 years. * Map of mishaps that have occurred so far during the 2014 Sochi Olympic torch relay. * Unsuccessfully marketed as an American patriot, Snowden has now rebranded himself as