THIRTEEN years ago the U.S. was at the peak of history's biggest demobilization of armed men
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Study: Why Older Women Have Higher Sex Drive
Men who cheat on their spouses have always enjoyed an expedient explanation: Evolution made me do it.
Your Incredible Shrinking Paycheck
Before I started writing this column on why paychecks are likely to keep shrinking even if unemployment starts to inch down, I consulted Google to see if the term Marxism was trending upward. It was and has been ever since the end of December, the conclusion of a year in which workers’ share of the U.S
Warren Beatty Strikes Again
He is a millionaire many times over but lives in two small, slovenly kept hotel rooms. He travels with the fastest crowd in the country but rarely drinks and never snorts or smokes
Fear and Loathing
From the opening lines of The Fear, Peter Godwin makes it clear he does not intend to write a neutral chronicle of the land of his birth.
Keeping Up With the Seven Up
Imagine that, at age seven, you were chosen for a research project, in which, every seven years, you would be quizzed about your life’s intimate details: the tests you failed, the dreams you pursued or abandoned, the jobs and loves you lost.
Swing States
If you took a jazz-history course before 2000 or so, you almost certainly listened to The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. Long out of print, the Collection has finally been supplanted
Religion: Latest Easter
This year Easter falls on its latest possible date: April 25. Only once in the past 100 years—in 1886—has it been so late
Paris Concorde Trial Seeks Answers on Air France Crash
You might think passengers taking off or landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport would feel unsettled seeing a supersonic Concorde jet mounted on a steel frame alongside the runway, with its needle-like beak pointed upward in take-off position. After all, just such a Concorde plane crashed in a ball of fire nearly 10 years ago, less than two miles from where the mounted jet now stands.
African Migrants, Turned Away by Italy, Abused in Gaddafi’s Libya
The young Eritrean woman was exhausted, famished and dehydrated after spending four days in March lost in the Mediterranean Sea. She had been on a fishing boat with nearly 300 African migrants, crammed so tightly that she couldn’t move