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Hey Adult YA Readers, Grow Up Already
 Hey Adult YA Readers, 
 Grow Up Already 
OPINION
Jun 6, 2014 12:04 PM CDT

Hey Adult YA Readers, Grow Up Already

'We are better than this,' Ruth Graham says of her fellow grown-ups

(Newser) - Time was, adults wouldn't be caught dead reading a book written for teens, but now grownups buy more young-adult books than young adults themselves. At Slate , Ruth Graham wishes this weren't so. "Adults should feel embarrassed about reading literature written for children," she writes. Sure, they'...

Stop Using This &#39;Ugly&#39; 4-Letter Word
Stop Using This 'Ugly' 4-Letter Word
OPINION
Feb 28, 2014 11:01 AM CST

Stop Using This 'Ugly' 4-Letter Word

Danielle Cadet argues that the word 'rant' invalidates important arguments

(Newser) - There's an "ugly" four-letter word that's repeatedly used in reference to black men, and it's about time we drop it. No, it's not thug . It's rant, writes Danielle Cadet for the Huffington Post . Why R-A-N-T? Simply put, it labels an argument "as unimportant...

Ladies, Go Get a Husband— Who Earns More Than You

Susan Patton: 'You're not getting any younger'

(Newser) - Love it or hate it, it's Valentine's Day and that means, ladies, it's time to find yourself a husband. That's the word from Susan Patton at the Wall Street Journal , who notes you're probably spending much too much time on your career and not nearly...

Loosen Up Pot Restrictions—So We Can Study It

Much more data needed on medical effects of marijuana: Devinsky, Friedman

(Newser) - A story making the rounds on social media goes like this: A young girl's epileptic seizures went from hundreds a week down to just a few a month after her parents began treating her with marijuana. Her case prompted families of children with similar disorders to move to Colorado...

Sorry, Guys: You've Gone the Way of the Dodo

Guys are obsolete, at least in the historical sense: Hanna Rosin

(Newser) - Guys, you're obsolete. Not literally, but as men "as we've historically come to define them—entitled to power, destined for leadership, arrogant, confused by anything that isn't them," Hanna Rosin writes for Time in an excerpt of her book, The End of Men. For one...

Krauthammer: Here's Why Redskins Should Change Name

Charles Krauthammer: You wouldn't use 'Negro,' so why Redskins?

(Newser) - Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer weighs in today on the Washington Redskins name controversy: Yes, let's change it, he writes for the Washington Post . But he's quick to point out that he's no fan of the "language police," or "being lectured by sportscasters about ethnic...

Redskins Name Change &#39;Kind of Like a Reservation&#39;
Redskins Name Change
'Kind of Like a Reservation'
OPINION
Sep 19, 2013 11:01 AM CDT

Redskins Name Change 'Kind of Like a Reservation'

Not everyone a fan of Rick Reilly's argument

(Newser) - Slate will never again write the word Redskins in reference to DC's football team out of sensitivity to Native Americans—but what if Native Americans aren't actually insulted by it? asks Rick Reilly at ESPN . In Reilly's telling, they're not, and his column arguing for the...

Don't Hate on Airplane Food —It's 'a Minor Miracle'

Considering how planes mess with our senses of taste and smell, writes Matt Goulding

(Newser) - Airplane food may be the butt of many, many jokes, but Matt Goulding admits to craving "the plastic tray of overcooked veggies, insipid sauces, and industrial condiments." And no, he's not joking. But he's quick to point out that context matters. "I've only eaten...

That Cancer You Beat May Not Have Been &#39;Cancer&#39;
That Cancer You Beat May Not Have Been 'Cancer'
OPINION
Aug 19, 2013 11:57 AM CDT

That Cancer You Beat May Not Have Been 'Cancer'

Some early diagnoses steal funding from bad cancers: Virginia Postrel

(Newser) - When it comes to cancer, we live in a world where early diagnosis has become king, with the "reigning theory" being that early detection and treatment mean a reduced chance of death, writes Virginia Postrel at Bloomberg . "Yet this theory infers causality from correlation. It implicitly assumes that...

Suicide by Choice Is a Fantasy

 Suicide by Choice Is a Fantasy 
OPINION
Nov 1, 2012 12:41 PM CDT

Suicide by Choice Is a Fantasy

Patients near end of life are surrounded by 'invisible coercion': Ben Mattlin

(Newser) - A proposed law in Massachusetts to make assisted suicide legal has built-in rules to make sure patients aren't coerced into the decision, but journalist and author Ben Mattlin thinks the concept of coercion is murky, dangerous water, he writes in the New York Times . The subject is close to...

Why the Close Race? We've Seen the 'Real Obama'

Peggy Noonan: It was that out-of-touch guy at the first debate

(Newser) - There have been lots of excuses to explain away Obama's weak performance in the first debate, but Peggy Noonan says don't listen to them. Viewers "didn't see some odd version of the president" in Denver, she writes in the Wall Street Journal . "They saw the...

Why We're Fascinated by the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: Anne Applebaum
 Why Wills and 
 Kate Fascinate Us 
OPINION
Apr 26, 2011 1:45 PM CDT

Why Wills and Kate Fascinate Us

They're victims of an inescapable fate—but they seem happy anyway

(Newser) - Even to those of us with no plans to sit through the royal wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton are intriguing. “My friend is not a royal watcher or a tabloid reader. Neither am I,” writes Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post . Yet both were familiar with Kate’...

Tax Reform: The Simple, Perfect Budget Fix

Both parties can get what they want: just fix the 'lunatic' tax code, writes Clive Crook

(Newser) - Tax Day is a painful reminder that Form 1040 "is to personal finance as waterboarding is to asking some questions," writes Clive Crook in the Financial Times . But it doesn’t have to be: "If ever there were a free lunch, if ever there were a dollar...

No One's Being Honest About the Budget

Both parties' fixes amount to 'wishful thinking': Robert Samuelson

(Newser) - Republicans and Democrats both claim to have a plan to fix the budget, but neither party is offering a realistic approach. It’s time for Dems to admit that “spending control requires genuine cuts in Social Security and Medicare”—and it’s time for the GOP to recognize...

Jack Shafer: Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism Are Pointless
 Pulitzers Are 
 Pointless 
OPINION
Apr 18, 2011 1:17 PM CDT

Pulitzers Are Pointless

They're weightless 'footnotes,' not 'headlines': Jack Shafer

(Newser) - The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism are awarded today, but they don’t mean a thing, writes Jack Shafer. “I doubt that one newspaper reader in 10,000 could tell you a day after the Pulitzers are awarded who got the prize for explanatory reporting,” he notes in a...

Heavy Metal Speaks the Truth
 Heavy Metal 
 Speaks the Truth 
OPINION
Apr 17, 2011 6:14 PM CDT

Heavy Metal Speaks the Truth

And in a world of fiction, it's due for a resurgence

(Newser) - Heavy metal is outlandish, it’s ridiculous, it’s frightening—and it relates fundamental truths about the dark side of human nature, writes James Parker in the Atlantic . Indeed, its dark lyrics echo the writings of mythographer Sir James George Frazier: “We seem to move on a thin crust...

Next Bubble to Burst? Higher Education, Says PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel

 Next Bubble to Burst? 
 Higher Education 
OPINION
Apr 11, 2011 1:59 PM CDT

Next Bubble to Burst? Higher Education

We invest vast sums in a future that may not exist, says Peter Thiel

(Newser) - We’re in the midst of another bubble, and it's not an Internet one, according to PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. It's a higher education bubble, and "like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future,” writes Sarah Lacy, who sat down to...

Paul Krugman on Budget Deal: What Happened to the Old Barack Obama?

 Barack Obama Has Gone AWOL 
paul krugman
Apr 11, 2011 1:51 PM CDT

Barack Obama Has Gone AWOL

Not only is Obama caving to the GOP—he's 'celebrating' it, writes Paul Krugman

(Newser) - Barack Obama has left the building. Granted, with Republicans running amok, all Obama really has is “the bully pulpit,” but incredibly, “he’s using it to reinforce his enemies’ narrative,” writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times . Maybe he did have to make big concessions...

Romesh Ratnesar: Pentagon Budget Must Shrink to Fix Deficit
Face It, Washington:
Defense Budget Must Shrink
OPINION
Apr 11, 2011 12:20 PM CDT

Face It, Washington: Defense Budget Must Shrink

Pentagon's policies 'outdated'; deficit's the biggest threat: Romesh Ratnesar

(Newser) - The latest budget compromise may have resulted in “sweeping” and “historic” cuts, as the White House, Congress, and the media have claimed—yet “not a solitary penny” was cut from defense spending. Instead, spending will break $700 billion in 2011, which happens to be a post-World War...

Why Obama Gets No Credit for Success

His presidency's been about 'preventing disaster,' writes Michael Grunwald

(Newser) - President Obama “prevented an atrocity” in Libya, but no one’s giving him credit. Why? “Because he prevented an atrocity,” writes Michael Grunwald in Time . It’s called the “counterfactual problem:” “It's hard to get credit for avoiding a disaster when it's impossible to...

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