Last Sunday night I spent a good five minutes lying facedown on my couch, my head pressed into the crack between our old tan cushions, my arms pinned awkwardly under my chest, emitting a sequence of guttural moaning noises as my wife silently read Janet Maslin’s newly posted New York Times review of…

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Image courtesy Dav Yaginuma Do not buy a car. Do not drive. Ignore advice to obtain an international driver’s license before your arrival. American cops do not know what an international driving license is. Or they pretend not to know and what they don’t know makes them angry. You do not want to…

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News Desk September 6, 2012 A lot of successful politicians, like George W. Bush and Barack Obama, are talented at reading from a Teleprompter. But Bill Clinton—as the comparison between his Democratic Convention remarks as prepared and as delivered proves—doesn’t read from a Teleprompter: he…

Borough pride Jay-Z helped design the Brooklyn Nets’ new logos. Calvin Klein Collection suit, $1,295, and shirt, $195; (212) 292-9000.Credit...Photograph by Cass Bird. Fashion editor: Sara Moonves. It’s difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It’s not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a…

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At Priceonomics , we are fascinated by stolen bicycles. Put simply, why the heck do so many bicycles get stolen? It seems like a crime with very limited financial upside for the thief, and yet bicycle theft is rampant in cities like San Francisco (where we are based). What is the economic incentive…

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has spoken out in favor of a Maryland ballot initiative that would legalize gay marriage. Yahoo has published a letter that Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. wrote last week to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, urging him to "inhibit such…

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Andrew Clark selects a book at his East Vancouver neighbourhood’s book exchange on Charles Street and Lakewood Drive on Friday.Rafal Gerszak/The Globe and Mail The structure stands at the side of a quiet residential street in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, along a popular bikeway and…

Zadie Smith's latest novel, NW, tackles the subjects that have long preoccupied her work: class, gender, and education. Though she now resides part-time in New York (where she teaches creative writing at New York University), the setting is her native London, where thirtysomethings and best friends…

A month or so ago, Nicolas Nova asked me to write an essay for a project he was doing. He said they'd been working on a catalogue of novel "gestures, postures and digital rituals" and could I write ab

U.S. Foreign Policy Economics China East Asia August 29, 2012, 10:18 PM For the last 40 years, Americans have lagged in recognizing the declining fortunes of their foreign rivals. In the 1970s they thought the Soviet Union was 10 feet tall -- ascendant even though corruption and inefficiency were…

In the passionate world of American atheism, the venom usually directed at believers has now been turned against the wrong kind of atheists. The cause of this freethinking furore? A new movement called Atheism+. According to its website, "Atheism+ is a safe space for people to discuss how religion…

Tampa, Fla. Honesty is a lost art. Facts are for losers. The truth is dead. Pick one. Whatever the term of art, they all signal a dark turn, and, this week, the Republican Party took that turn with reckless abandon. Lying is certainly nothing new in politics. One could even argue that it’s…

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One of the most peculiar developments in the U.S. TV racket recently hasn't gotten much attention. And one is obliged to wonder why. That development is an offer by Jay Leno to work for free as host of The Tonight Show on NBC. The Tonight Show's troubles – with ratings and costs – emerged as an…

When I read an article reporting that Richard Masato Aoki had been an FBI informant on August 20th, I was, to put it mildly, upset by the allegation. Like everyone else, I have to weigh the evidence and the sources claiming Aoki, a Japanese American involved in radical activism during the 1960s,…

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As amazing as it might seem to the national media, there actually are many baseball fans who don't live and die over whether the Washington Nationals shut down Stephen Strasburg. Or whether Bryce Harper emerges from his slump in time to win the Rookie of the Year award. Oh, many of these fans wish…

Profiles August 27, 2012 Scooter Braun’s job includes developing revenue streams that record labels wouldn’t think of. “This isn’t a dying business, this is a changing business,” he says.Photograph by Jeff Minton When Scooter Braun, the manager of Justin Bieber and a stable of other pop stars, was…

(This month, Puck Daddy asked bloggers for every NHL team to tell us The Essentials for their franchises — everything from the defining player and trade, to the indispensable fan traditions. Here's our own Harrison Mooney, giving us The Essentials for the Vancouver Canucks.) If we're being fair, the…

TAMPA, Fla. — It was about halfway through the speech given by Mary Fallin, by the grace of a pitiless god the governor of Oklahoma, where I finally came close to losing it. She rolled herself into this remarkable passage: The history of my great state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing…

The Sporting Scene August 24, 2012 One of the greatest rivalries in professional sports history was surely that between the Red Sox and Yankees from 2003 to 2011. They were the best teams in baseball many of those years. They participated in two of the greatest playoff series of all time. They…

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This piece was first delivered orally at ‘Writers with Drinks’ at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Tom Coates 8 min read· Aug 28, 2012 -- One of the most fundamental problems of our ages is that we’ve lost our trust in the very idea of truth. The loss of ‘truth’ corrodes every aspect of our…