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Cartoons of the Week
May 5–11, 2012
President Obama throws a shotgun wedding, plus other editorial cartoons from the week. -
Historic TIME Letters
Pop Culture
Pop culture consumers may be devoted, but all that adulation can turn to outrage with the slightest of provocations
It’s great that diversity is extending to the neurological, but there’s a danger in portraying those on the spectrum as inherently miraculous
Why the music industry is still plagued by early deaths and fearing strokes more than bullets
The supermodel was right to defend her husband Tom Brady after being heckled by a Giants fan
The 10-year-old show is playing up its history, but what young person wants to watch “an institution”?
What Adele, Woody Allen and Newt Gingrich have in common and why we can’t stop romanticizing the past
Why are we squandering our precious contempt on minor misdeeds and little girls?
Are conservative celebrities less concerned about going against the political grain of the entertainment industry?
Now that Paula Deen has become a pseudo-spokesperson for Type 2 diabetes, she’ll continue to enrage health nuts all the way to the bank
Is the director of New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day trying to take over movies with the equivalent of the toilet read?
The rapper’s ode to his newborn heralds an era of grownup hip-hop that deals with deep emotions
From occupy to winning! to Tebowing, our language mirrored our mood
In which the author serves up some hot righteous pie for the holidays
Yes, he’s Canadian. But Ryan Gosling is still the Coolest Person of the Year
Alec Baldwin’s not the only one in the hot seat because of that game
