Music in the Meltdown
What should pop sound like when the country’s going to hell?
SpongeBob’s Golden Dream
The mysterious allure of the fry cook from Bikini Bottom
The Secret Drew Barrymore
America’s Favorite Child Actress Fell Off-Camera into Alcoholism and Addiction, the Curses of Her Venerable Acting Family, but Now She’s Fighting Back
The End of the Affair
The fate of Detroit isn’t a matter of economics. It’s a tragic romance, whose magic was killed by bureaucrats, bad taste and busybodies. P.J. O’Rourke on why Americans fell out of love with the automobile.
About a Bing
Beware Google: Microsoft’s new search engine isn’t half-bad.
The Paper Chase
After America
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Paul Starobin peers into his crystal ball to examine six scenarios for how the post-America world might be.
I Just Had a Baby, I’ll Call You Back
In an excerpt from Womenomics, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman say the career ladder is crumbling and women need to forge new paths that can accommodate personal ambition and family.
Who Cares What People Write?
Good Neighbors
In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling self-conscious, the collective task in Ramsey Hill was to relearn certain life skills that your own parents had fled to the suburbs specifically to unlearn, like how to interest the local cops in actually doing their job, and how to protect a bike from a highly motivated thief, and when to bother rousting a drunk from your lawn furniture, and how to encourage feral cats to shit in somebody else’s children’s sandbox, and how to determine whether a public school sucked too much to bother trying to fix it. (Fiction)
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