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Oct 2, 2014
Gen X Is the Future of Work
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by Susan S. LaMotte
Oct 2, 2014
How To Fix the Secret Service
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by Ronald Kessler
Oct 2, 2014
Alan Cumming's Boyhood Was No Cabaret
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by Susanna Schrobsdorff
Oct 2, 2014
Our Dysfunctional Financial System
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by Rana Foroohar
Oct 2, 2014
Live Without Regrets: What Are the Top 5 Career Regrets?
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by Eric Barker
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Oct 1, 2014
White House Made a Mistake in Iraq
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by Leon Panetta
Oct 1, 2014
Poor, Disconnected and Living in the Cloud
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by Heather Seggel
Oct 1, 2014
I Don't Want to Marry a Man Who Will Feed Our Kid McDonald's
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by Sandria M. Washington
Oct 1, 2014
The Most Game-Changing Part of the 'Affirmative Consent' Law
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by Quinn Cummings
Oct 1, 2014
Is There an Afterlife? Yes, According to 'The Map of Heaven'
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by Eben Alexander and Ptolemy Tompkins
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Oct 1, 2014
This Is the Most Sexist Republican Ad of the Year
by Charlotte Alter
Oct 1, 2014
President Obama, Please Stay out of California
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by Joe Mathews
Oct 1, 2014
No, Carmaggedon is Not Inevitable
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by Zócalo Public Square
Oct 1, 2014
Ebola Co-Discoverer: 'This Was an Avoidable Catastrophe'
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by Peter Piot
Oct 1, 2014
Xi Jinping Could Be China’s Last Communist Ruler
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by Larry Diamond