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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.		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.		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