But Will It Make You Happy?

She had so much.

Published: Aug 7, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,048 words)

My Life in Therapy

Published: Aug 4, 2010
Length: 36 minutes (9,192 words)

The Age of Laura Linney

Published: Jul 28, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,255 words)

View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan

As the new American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, tries to reverse the lagging war effort, the WikiLeaks documents sketch a war hamstrung by an Afghan government, police force and army of questionable loyalty and competence, and by a Pakistani military that appears at best uncooperative and at worst to work from the shadows as an unspoken ally of the very insurgent forces the American-led coalition is trying to defeat.

Published: Jul 25, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,132 words)

The Stories of One Brooklyn Block

Published: Jul 23, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,045 words)

The Web Means the End of Forgetting

Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.” After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was “unprofessional,” and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students. As a result, days before Snyder’s scheduled graduation, the university denied her a teaching degree.

Published: Jul 21, 2010
Length: 27 minutes (6,787 words)

When Funny Goes Viral

One weekend this spring, close to 1,000 people gathered on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to attend a sold-out conference devoted to the question “What is awesome on the Internet?” While the event included presenters and moderators with respectable research credentials from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and the like, what they had gathered to examine, more or less seriously, is what might be called the ROFL universe.

Author: Rob Walker
Published: Jul 16, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,580 words)

The New Abortion Providers

Published: Jul 14, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,018 words)

Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?

Published: Jul 6, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,206 words)

Tuna’s End

Published: Jun 22, 2010
Length: 30 minutes (7,513 words)