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Dilbert’s Scott Adams: Choose Your Immortality
Someday you’ll be a robot with a locket holding your last human cells
Putin’s Pawn: Forget Chess or Checkers — Obama Forfeited
History is longer than the news cycle or a term in office, writes the chess champion
What I Learned as a Porn Tagger
A lot of laws, like mandatory condoms, may have unexpected side effects
Why I’m Abstaining From the NFL
The air chills, the humidity departs, the school bell rings, the shofar blows … all signs that the football season has begun to eat my Sundays. Or would be eating them if I hadn’t resolved, unlike most Americans (even most …
Sen. Rand Paul: President Putin, America Is Exceptional
It is our exceptionalism—and our separation of powers—that has kept us out of war in Syria.
The Confusing State of U.S.-Russia Relations
Behind Putin’s latest move, and our on-again, off-again alliance
In the End, New Yorkers Reject Bad Boy Candidates
Tolerance of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer is not the same as acceptance
China’s Kinder, Gentler Show Trial
Rigged or not, the riveting proceedings against Communist official Bo Xilai have meant progress
Viewpoint: What NYPD Really Needs: Polite Police
In order to really reform street policing, the NYPD needs to reduce the volume of stops and the indignity of the process
The Freelancer’s Hustle
Choire Sicha’s new book chronicles the panicked, fax-filled, poverty-waged life that keeps writers coming back for more
The Pope’s Baby Steps on Gays
Francis’ encouraging words show how far the Roman Catholic Church still has to go
Most Americans Don’t #StandWithWendy After All
Across the board, Americans oppose late-term abortions.