Articles Tweeted

Newest Picks

Why Obama won the women's vote

Women celebrating Barack Obama's triumph: they had much to fear from a Romney victory. Photograph: Shawn Thew/Camera Press In the very long list of people who, in what might come to be seen as the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1528 words)

Why does Mitt Romney want to be president?

In 2007, when Mitt Romney sat down with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was eager for the influential paper’s blessing. What he got,…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 4, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2414 words)

Molly Ringwald: your former teenage crush

Molly Ringwald in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Barry J Holmes Molly Ringwald peruses the rack of designer clothing pulled in as potential attire for her imminent photoshoot, noting to the…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2265 words)

the rise and rise of solo living

Human societies, at all times and places, have organised themselves around the will to live with others, not alone. But not any more. During the past half-century, our species has embarked on…
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5173 words)
}