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The Internet vs. the NEA: is Kickstarter a secret right-wing plot to undermine the national endowment for the arts?		Jun 1, 2012	1277
King-sized no more.	Brief article	May 12, 2012	227
Tear down this paywall: court records are expensive and inaccessible. It's time for information liberation.		May 11, 2012	1355
The gun explosion: why the firearms boom is good news for the American economy.	Column	Apr 17, 2012	1301
Aliens vs. bureaucrats: our costly, record-breaking system for dealing with illegal immigrants.	Column	Feb 16, 2012	1407
Skyscrapers as spaceships: the "rampant individualism" and surprising environmentalism of really tall buildings.		Jan 31, 2012	1349
The quantified self: what will life be like when every aspect of your existence is as easy to access as the latest Lady Gaga single?	Column	Dec 21, 2011	1388
Twelve apathetic men: why no wants to get convicted of jury duty.	Column	Nov 18, 2011	1358
TMI nation: how to protect your reputation in the digital age.	Column	Oct 12, 2011	1336
Pimp your ride: why own what you can rent? And why not rent out what you own?	Column	Sep 9, 2011	1309
Spray paint the walls: graffiti, art, and advertising.		Aug 1, 2011	1066
The eternal fallout shelter: we're still living in the wake left by Cold War civil defense hysteria.	Column	Jul 2, 2011	1330
You've got jail: Is it time to bring America's prisoners online?	Column	Jun 4, 2011	1245
Radar love: the changing status of the radar detector in a hyper-surveilled world.	Column	Jun 1, 2011	1310
The post-postal society? The U.S. Postal Service struggles to stay self- sufficient.	Column	Apr 9, 2011	1270
Malls of a certain age the shopping mall: a look back.	Viewpoint essay	Mar 26, 2011	1339
A techno-agrarian manifesto: is vertical farming the future of American agriculture?	Book review	Mar 26, 2011	1091
The man's best friend: drug dogs sniff at the Fourth Amendment.	Column	Feb 24, 2011	1328
Grade inflation: the more we spend on higher education, the more we spend on higher education.		Jan 11, 2011	1292
Culture shock: how joy buzzers, trick chairs, and other prank devices helped manufacture the post-industrial American male.	Book review	Dec 8, 2010	1031
The fitness divide: what happened after JFK told America to take a hike.	Column	Nov 24, 2010	1301
The original mad man: advertising genius Albert Lasker transformed America.	Book review	Nov 1, 2010	1416
The return of debtor's prison: collection agencies use the criminal justice system to pocket credit card debts.		Oct 15, 2010	1329
Corpses, crimes, and comic books: Old Testament justice in the horror comics of the '50s.		Oct 15, 2010	1028
Cartoon truth: animated recreations may be the next big thing for the news biz.	Column	Sep 10, 2010	1323
Internet addiction: what once was parody may soon be diagnosis.		Jul 9, 2010	1349
Who's afraid of subliminal advertising? "Behavior placement" in television programming is neither new nor alarming.		Jun 11, 2010	1328
Selling free food: entrepreneurial foraging is the next phase of greener than-thou eating.	Column	May 13, 2010	1334
From Paris Hilton to John Edwards: celebrity sex tapes are the signature art form of our age.	Column	May 1, 2010	1289
Too much fun: caffeinated alcoholic drinks draw the reds' wrath for candor in advertising.	Column	Mar 6, 2010	1300
Starbucks' midlife crisis: the coffee giant can't quite accept its own customers' tastes.	Column	Feb 20, 2010	1299
The visible persuaders: advertising as a medium for truth telling.	Movie review	Feb 17, 2010	726
The greatest business story ever told: how Bible publishers went forth and multiplied.	Column	Jan 26, 2010	1278
Canned Laughter Lives! The ghost of the laugh track survives online.	Column	Jan 1, 2010	1307
Driving miss lazy: in praise of drive-through windows.		Jan 1, 2010	1093
Glenn Beck's experimental melodrama: the Fox News star terrifies America with his realistic news theater.		Dec 1, 2009	1356
Fading print: how we will survive without newspapers.	Column	Nov 1, 2009	1384
Sarah Palin, Maverick at Last: Mama Grizzly becomes the first real politician of the Internet era.		Oct 1, 2009	1333
Survival television: learning to love the vast wasteland to come.	Television program review	Aug 1, 2009	1315
The joys of brain scrubbing: the advantages of memory deletion in a collectively omniscient world.	Column	Jul 1, 2009	1277
Barter country: as the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless transactions.	Column	Jun 1, 2009	1345
I'm so bored with the NEA: artists demand "stimulus" subsidies.	Column	May 1, 2009	1337
Criminal Verite: mug shots--funny and unusual punishment.	Column	Apr 1, 2009	1393
Draft Dodgers: for DIY brewers, prohibition lasted until 1978. But once unleashed, they revolutionized the industry.	Column	Mar 1, 2009	1245
The successories president: the posterized secret of Obama's success?	Column	Feb 1, 2009	1250
Thank you, your honor, may I have another? The stubbornly seductive perils of justice porn.	Column	Jan 1, 2009	1263
The spin we love to hate: do we really want news without a point of view?	Column	Dec 1, 2008	1362
Garden gnome politics: the age-old battle over landscape expression.	Column	Nov 1, 2008	1279
Man's best friend forever: cloning dogs for love and profit.	Column	Oct 1, 2008	1381
First amendment lite: how the feds police liquor-related thought crime.		Aug 1, 2008	1358
Free the fireworks! Can individual citizens be trusted to celebrate Independence Day with a bang?		Jul 1, 2008	1305
The birth of the nuppie: high-end designers target nomadic urban professionals.		Jun 1, 2008	1325
I'm with stupid: the perennially embattled free speech zone over our chests.		Apr 1, 2008	1295
The golden age: how Americans learned to stop worrying and love workplace drug testing.		Mar 1, 2008	1344
The virtues of conspicuous giving: how self-righteous, empty-headed celebrities promote private charity.		Feb 1, 2008	1342
Where's the beef? Thank McDonald's for keeping you thin.	Critical essay	Jan 1, 2008	1343
Say you love Santa: pop culture's war on secularists.		Dec 1, 2007	1271
Amusing ourselves to depth: is The Onion our most intelligent newspaper?		Nov 1, 2007	1320
Bleeding into the mainstream: how John McCain popularized human cockfighting.		Oct 1, 2007	1328
The fetishist next door: the all-American appeal of Bettie Page.		Aug 1, 2007	756
The secret of The Secret: a cult self-help DVD fleeces the credulous.		Apr 1, 2007	709
Smile, you're on the telescreen: universal surveillance meets universal exhibitionism.		Feb 1, 2007	668
Pot clubs in peril: are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA?		Feb 1, 2007	5191
How 'big nutrition' destroys your will to fatness: awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.		Dec 1, 2006	653
All power to the couch potatoes: the remote control turns 50.		Nov 1, 2006	780
Sin cities on a hill: how legalized gambling moved from the Strip to Main Street.		May 1, 2006	5375
Homeschooling alone: why corporate reformers are ignoring the real revolution in education.		Apr 1, 2005	4548