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The blogosphere's reaction to the New Yorker cover proves that the Bush era has killed a lot of liberals' sense of humor. And that's not funny.
  • Blagojevich for president in 2012?

    The former Illinois governor is tanned, rested and ready
  • A Texan health care mystery

    What makes the town of McAllen different from the rest of the U.S.? The New Yorker explains
  • John Updike, baseball writer

    It's not what he was known for -- outside diamond circles, anyway -- but the late author penned one of the game's literary gems.
  • Death to death-grip parenting!

    Overparenting may lead to shrunken nervous systems and breakdowns. Didn't think you were getting that along with the SAT prep course, did you?
  • Obama campaign taking revenge?

    There was no space for a New Yorker reporter on the press plane for Obama's overseas trip; some observers believe that may be related to the magazine's controversial cover image.
  • The McCain cartoon satire

    A political cartoonist imagines what a satire of John McCain would look like if it were done by the conservative National Review.
  • Lizza defends New Yorker cover

    In an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball, the author of the magazine's most recent piece on Barack Obama said, "sometimes you need to hold a mirror up to these absurdities."
  • The Obama cover kerfuffle

    The cover of the latest issue of the New Yorker, supposedly a satire of the misconceptions about Barack and Michelle Obama, has set off a firestorm on the Internet.
  • The casino tycoon who loved China

    All that cash the rest of the world is sending to China? Sheldon Adelson, the third-richest American, is recycling it.
  • Uncovering Gertrude and Alice

    Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself.
  • Cheers and jeers

    A McCartney profile sparks an online spat, praise for Spoon, free Queens of the Stone Age and more.
  • Big business gets on the healthcare reform bandwagon

    A coalition of large businesses comes out for a change in America's healthcare system.
  • New Yorker: Women largely irrelevant in near future

    The magazine's upcoming "2012" conference disproportionately features male speakers.
  • Why do journalists suddenly love Al Gore?

    After they tempt him into the presidential race, they'll probably try to destroy him again. And he knows it.
  • To hell with all that magazine writing

    Caitlin Flanagan is reportedly off the New Yorker staff. We'll try not to gloat too conspicuously.
  • What else we're reading

    Face lifts, depressed babies, gay politicians and more!
  • A Kuznets curve for H2O?

    The New Yorker on water: Gloom, doom and an unexpected trickle of hope.
  • Building a safer pregnancy

    Researchers are working to better treat and monitor the high-risk pregnancy condition preeclampsia.
  • The meaning of "pro-life"

    A New Yorker piece on South Dakota shows that people on both sides are troubled by the no-exceptions abortion ban.
  • The happy hypocrite

    I never cared that Caitlin Flanagan calls herself an at-home mother, even though she's a magazine writer with a staff of helpers. But now she's using her battle with cancer to denounce feminism and extol her traditional virtues -- and I've had it.
  • Impeach Bush

    The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever -- and he's taking us into the darkness with him. It's time to remove him.
  • The New Yorker's woman problem

    The dearth of female bylines should be the talk of the town.
  • How unfunny are Scooter's sex scenes?

    A blogger rips apart Scooter Libby's erotic novel.
  • Seymour Hersh's alternative history of Bush's war

    The crack investigative reporter tells Salon about a disastrous battle the U.S. brass hushed up, the frightening True Believers in the White House, and how Iran, not Israel, may have manipulated us into war.
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