Reihan Salam

Reihan Salam is a writer in New York.

The Eye

Why Cul-de-Sacs Are Bad for Your Health

This Was an Outrageous Year of Cinematic Bounty: Dana Stevens’ Top 10 of 2013

This Amazing British TV Series Starts With Terrorists Demanding the Prime Minister Have Sex With a Pig

Help! My Family Calls Everyone by the Nicknames My Baby Nephew Makes Up.

We Say We Like Creativity, but We Really Don’t

The Slatest

Ukraine Police Storm Protester Camps in Capital

Uruguay Goes All in, First Country to Legalize Entire Marijuana Industry

A Case for the Oxford Comma in One Screenshot

In the Ultimate Super Bowl Buzzkill Tailgating is Banned Before the Big Game

We Have a Budget Deal, and It Erases and Ignores Sequestration

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We Have a Budget Deal, and It Erases and Ignores Sequestration

Inside the Secret Conservative Campaign to Rewrite the Constitution

John Cornyn Ain't Afraid of No Primary

Toto and “Wimoweh”? Really? The U.S. Media Still Needs Some Work on its “Africa” Tropes

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Brow Beat

Steve Irwin Gets Autotuned in a Delightful Musical Tribute

Is the New Godzilla an Environmentalist Parable?

Who Is Hiding the Dirtiest Secrets on Scandal?

This Amazing British TV Series Starts With Terrorists Demanding the Prime Minister Have Sex With a Pig

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Future Tense

If a Data-Mining Santa Helped Kids Create Their Wish Lists

America Beats Germany in Solar Power for First Time in 15 Years

Sorry, Boston: New York Is Now the Silicon Valley of the East

How Artificial Intelligence Might Monetize Fan Fiction

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Moneybox

What's Our $1 Trillion Infrastructure Stimulus Going to Be Spent on?

REVEALED: The Person of the Year Is Edward Snowden

When Your Traffic Comes From Facebook, It's Facebook's Traffic

This Is Why Tim Cook Should Ignore Carl Icahn

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Lexicon Valley

A Case for the Oxford Comma in One Screenshot

Counting Fifes and Drums in George Washington's Army

Glorious, Affordable, Colorful Presents for Everyone on Your List

Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore

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Bad Astronomy

Juno Spacecraft Catches the Earth and Moon Dancing [Video]

Dancing at the Science Party

How to Turn Consensus Into Doubt

You Don’t Want to Miss this Outside-the-Airplane In-Flight Movie

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The XX Factor

In Defense of Using Feminism to Sell Things

How to Talk to Republican Congressmen: A Guide for Women

Fox News Implores Women to Become Financially Dependent on Men

Society Tells Men That Friendship Is Girly. Men Respond by Not Having Friends.

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Sports Nut

How Impressive Was Matt Prater’s NFL Record 64-Yard Field Goal?

How Will the United States Fare in the World Cup’s Group of Death?

How Did Jameis Winston Evade a Rape Charge?

Ted Williams Had a Perfect Swing and a Complicated Life

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Dear Prudence

Help! My Sister Won’t Honor the One Condition I Placed on Her Interest-Free Loan.

How Much Can Rick Grimes Whisper-Yell on The Walking Dead? A Raspy Supercut.

Help! My Husband Moans and Groans Whenever I Want to Cut My Hair Short.

Help! I Found Sex Videos of My Husband and His First Wife.

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Behold

A Photographic Journey Through Apartheid in Nelson Mandela’s South Africa

Britain’s Beloved Victorian-Era Pleasure Piers

Using Images to Relearn How to Speak

America’s Last Traveling Sideshow

Lexicon Valley

Will a "Logical" Language Make You Think More Logically?

The Flipped Classroom: Lectures at Night, Homework at School

Can Someone Make It Snow Every NFL Weekend?

The New Lawsuit That Could Gut Obamacare

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