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In the Current Magazine

Beauty Tips for the FDA
Did my wife’s cosmetics give her breast cancer? By John F. Wasik
Under the Gaydar
How gays won the right to raise children without conservatives even noticing. By Alison Gash
Overthinking Obama
Forget Kenya. The president’s secret political philosophy is apparently rooted in seventeenth-century Rotterdam. By Mark Schmitt

From the Archives

Dirty Medicine
How medical supply behemoths stick it to the little guy, making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive. By Mariah Blake July/August 2010
Bandits in Black Robes
Why you should still be angry about Bush v. Gore By Jamin Raskin March 2001
Administrators Ate My Tuition
Want to get college costs in line? Start by cutting the overgrown management ranks. By Benjamin Ginsberg September/October 2011

More News & Views

Another Case of Mass Foreclosure Fraud?
Bank of America, allegedly up to their usual tricks. By Sam Knight 06/17/2013
Strange Bedfellows
What congressmen, medical researchers, and panhandlers have in common. By Andrew Gelman 06/14/2013
Immigration Reform and the Growing Asian-American Vote
They ought to worry the GOP more than Latinos. By Raymond A. Smith 06/14/2013
Is Financialization Eroding Labor’s Income Share?
Beware of finance unchained. By Ryan Cooper 06/14/2013
The Equal Pay Act - Powerful But Not Enough
Women are still earning 77 cents to men’s $1. By Anne Kim 06/12/2013
Edward Snowden, Slayer of Party Unity?
Progressives might break with Obama over NSA surveillance. By Ed Kilgore 06/12/2013
The Secret of Costco’s Success
Keep out the MBAs, treat your employees right. By Kathleen Geier 06/11/2013
Why Is Labor’s Share of the Economy Plummeting Everywhere?
A disturbing trend. By Kathleen Geier 06/10/2013
The Henry II Theory of Presidential Responsibility
Exciting new frontiers in blaming Obama for everything. By Ed Kilgore 06/09/2013
An All-Renewable Future Is Already Feasible for Australia
An all-green society, coming soon. By James Wimberley 06/08/2013
Mortality Among Poorly-educated Women
Life expectancy falling among our most vulnerable. By Bill Gardner 06/07/2013
How U.S. Politics Was Hijacked by Partisans
Power has devolved to the people. And the people hate it. By Ezra Klein 06/05/2013
The Blind Monkey Theorem, or What Ayn Rand Got Right
CS Lewis did have a bias against science. By Mark Kleiman 06/04/2013
The 11 Biggest Conservative Scandal Faceplants
Right media, repeatedly tripping over its own shoelaces. By Ryan Cooper 06/03/2013
Paterno Family Sues the NCAA
Over “coercion and threats.” By Daniel Luzer 06/03/2013
Why We Let UN Troops Get Slaughtered
They’re stuck with fourth-rate equipment. By Paul Stephens 06/01/2013
The Misogynist Public Policy Agenda
Our new plutocracy means women have to work. By Ed Kilgore 05/31/2013
What Those Bicep Size and Political Attitudes Papers Are Really About
By Andrew Gelman 05/31/2013
Profs in the Cloud
The perils and promise of online learning. By Richard D. Kahlenberg 05/29/2013
Revolution for Thee, Not Me
Online learning will transform the nature of college for everybody—except the affluent. By Daniel Luzer 05/29/2013