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Welcome to South Bend: Bail Out Studebaker
Fifty-plus years is surely too long ago to cash in on a bailout.
So You Want to Be President
This year over a thousand people signed up to run for President of the United States. And you thought we had no choices. Craig Tomashoff decided to drive across country and…
For Men and By Men
Slate’s Rebecca Onion and Andrew Kahn analyze the overwhelming maleness of both the subjects and authors of history books, discussing their findings with book publishers: Our data set revealed some…
The President’s Holiday Reading List
Electric Literature has the scoop on the list of books President Obama and his family bought during their recent excursion on Small Business Saturday. Salman Rushdie and Jonathan Franzen made their way…
My One-And-A-Half-Year-Old Daughter Draws All 43 Presidents of the United States
As the election approaches, artist Jason Novak and his daughter bring us illustrations of all the US presidents.
Psychopathic Presidents
PsychCentral covers a study that claims presidential candidates benefit from psychopathic behavior. It is purported that traits such as “fearless dominance” can help the Chief lead to their best abilities: “In fact, he…
Memory, Reason and Imagination
Books once belonging to Thomas Jefferson, our most bibliophilic president, have turned up at Washington University in St. Louis. The books were part of Jefferson’s retirement library, so-called because he…
Politics Sunday
Nick Spicer asks if BP might have something in common with Captain Ahab. Apparently, there was a time when presidents weren’t all rich guys. How an online community saved two…