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Obama's Prom Photos | TIME.com

swampland.time.com — This article appears in this week's magazine underneath the title, "Obama's Grand Old Party." To subscribe to TIME, click here. Tucked away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high schoo...

Apple Avoids U.S. Taxes, Then Complains Our Schools Are Lousy

newrepublic.com — It's remarkable how quickly the storm of outrage over Apple's epic tax avoidance has passed over Washington. All it took was for Apple CEO Tim Cook (2011 compensation: $378 million) to share some yuks with senators about their love for his company's products ("I love Apple.

Kindle’s most-highlighted passages and the soul of the American reader

newrepublic.com — One of the great small pleasures of used books is the occasional marginalia of a previous owner. You learn a tiny bit about that anonymous soul by seeing the passages she underlined, or tidily double-underlined, or exclamation-pointed, or starred madly and messily.

NYRB 50 Years International Reportage reviewed Gabriel Debenedetti

newrepublic.com — Lamentations of the purported downfall of international news coverage have been plentiful in recent years, as American newspapers have slashed budgets and scaled back their global presence. The New York Times' Bill Keller wrote about this phenomenon last December, touting the importance of full-time foreign correspondents over "reporters or anchors who parachute in when there's a crisis."

Hugh Aldersey-Williams Anatomies: Cultural History of the Human Body

newrepublic.com — Proprioception refers to the body's sense of itself in space; or, more specifically, to a sense of its parts in relation to one another. In , British writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams attempts something comparable to this bodily orientation on a social scale, a kind of cultural proprioception that maps our endless exploration of our own physical selves.

MarLo Meekins's post on Vine

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Alexander Stile's "The Force of Things" Reviewed by Marco Roth

newrepublic.com — "Sexy feminism," according to Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudulph, "owns the oft-maligned word feminist and aims to show young women how fun, empowering and, yes, sexy it is to fight for women's rights. We want to help other women find their feminism." This is an unarguably laudable aim.