The College Rape Overcorrection
By Emily Yoffe, Slate
Sexual assault on campus is a serious problem. But efforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of men.
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic
By Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
A TNR alum dives deep in what happened with the 100-year-old institution.
By Jimmy Breslin, New York Daily News
This is the column written by Jimmy Breslin on Dec. 9, 1980, recounting the moment officers found the legendary Beatles singer wounded and transported him in the back of a patrol car to Roosevelt Hospital, all the while not knowing who he was.
In Arkansas, white town is a black mark
By Timothy Bella, Al Jazeera America
Residents of Harrison try to fight their reputation as the small town with the most hate groups in America
Livin’ Thing: An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’
By Alex French and Howie Kahn, Grantland
Nearly 20 years later, Boogie Nights endures. For its beautiful portrait of nontraditional families; for Reynolds and Wahlberg, the surrogate father and son, who were never better; for Philip Seymour Hoffman, squeezing into character and breaking hearts; for its prodigy director sticking to his guns and nailing it; for John C. Reilly’s hot-tub poetry; for Roller Girl. Is everybody ready? This is the making and near unmaking of Boogie Nights.
An Ebola Doctor’s Return From the Edge of Death
By Denise Grady, New York Times
The medical record, from an Ebola case, made for grim reading, but Dr. Ian Crozier could not put it down. Within days of the first symptom, a headache, the patient was fighting for his life. He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail. “It’s a horrible-looking chart,” Dr. Crozier said. It was his own.
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Matter
How Britney Spears went to Vegas and became a feminist role model. No, really.