Raise Your Children Well
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman address the current state of child rearing.
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First Scary Movies
You can sleep with the closet light on, you can crawl into your parents’ bed, but you can never forget your first truly frightening horror movie. Our staff and readers agree.
29 October 2009: Morning
Ahmadinejad appears set to sign an I.A.E.A. proposal to ship its enriched uranium abroad. China faces its own health care woes; the nation's reformed care still leaves citizens depleted. U.N. torture expert turned away at Zimbabwe border, despite an invitation from its prime minister.
An Original Original
A well-researched new biography studies the full force of Thelonious Monk’s inventiveness.
Window Shopping
Never mind all that gloomy talk of falling real-estate prices. For many renters, even a heavily mortgaged apartment is the stuff of daydreams.
28 October 2009: Morning
Ecuador will drill for oil in pristine Amazon rainforest unless the world pays it $3 billion. Trib investigation finds Illinois nursing homes keep the peace by overdosing residents on psychotropics. Chris Ware's terrific Halloween-themed gatefold comic in this week's New Yorker. The deadline is tonight
28 October 2009: Afternoon
Maine is gay marriage's new battleground; if the law's upheld, the movement gains its first ballot-box victory. Instpaper for the commute: Invoking Stalin in today's debates is frivolous, and it disrespects his victims. Friedman: We can't afford 20 years of rebuilding
Is Rapper Kanye West Dead?
Suspicious lyrics and other clues suggest something may be amiss among the hip-hop royalty.
In It for the Money?
“The best jokes are dangerous...because they are in some way truthful”—Vonnegut was right.
LA, LA, LA, LA, LA
John Buntin ably investigates the stories behind mid-century Los Angeles.