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Ask Obama and Romney this: Where is Africa?

An enormous opportunity for the US could slip past

Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More

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Ask Obama and Romney This: What if China squares off with Japan?

An emerging, and little discussed, dilemma

Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More

China’s Chess Match

How the web has empowered the people

Early in 2003, like millions of other migrants of his generation, Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer, left central China,... More

Black Editor, Gray Lady

Gerald Boyd, Jayson Blair, and journalism’s diversity problem

My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times | By Gerald M. Boyd |... More

Google X

Inside Google’s secret lab

A tweetable feast

We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table

How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business

“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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