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The Best Longreads on Gun Violence and Policy

The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2012

Nicholson Baker: 'Writing this book was the most fun I ever had'

If you wonder why writers write, there's a succinct answer at least on behalf of the male ones in Nicholson Baker's new novel House of Holes, an anthology of orgies set in a playland where…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 14, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3227 words)

Is Sugar Toxic?

On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minute discussion of the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology.
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2011
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