The Answers Issue
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The Second Age of Reason
Information overload will improve our lives
The Real Ice Bucket Challenge
What’s harder than dumping freezing water on your head? Repeating this kind of success
Detroit: America’s Emerging Market
How the city can teach us to reinvest the rest of the U.S. economy
A Battle of Two Veterans
In an edgy political year, a former Marine tests a longtime Democratic pol for a seat near Boston
Obama Goes to War (With Congress)
The President began bombing ISIS on his own, but only Congress can start a war
Scotland’s Disunited Kingdom
Voters face a referendum on independence from Britain
Apps Charging for Free Services Get Savvy—and Sleazy
Booking a reservation or finding a parking spot just got a whole lot easier and more expensive
Ferguson’s Next Chapter
Can a town turn a tragic moment into a lasting movement?
Tablets for Tots
Meet the uber-tablet made specially for kids and families
Stand Up for Your Health
All-day sitting hurts the body. Here’s a novel way to undo the damage
Patton Oswalt: Why I Quit Twitter—And Will Again
Maybe the next fashionable rebellion is to become “unlinked”—only reachable face-to-face
Wall Street Goes Green
Why is solar booming? Finance
Banker Who Predicted 2008 Meltdown Is Worried Again
Raghuram Rajan is seeing troubling sings
Spinning Classes: Coming Soon to a Living Room Near You
How Peloton makes it easy—and fun—to cycle at home
Jessica Chastain’s Triple Play
One of the year’s buzzier films is being released in three different versions
In Transparent, a Breasted Development
Jeffrey Tambor explores a radical new phase of life— and the series itself breaks away from TV tradition
XKCD: When Physics Is Funny
The man behind the web’s smartest comics takes his science project where it’s never been before: paper
The Kids are Alright in This Is Our Youth
Michael Cera isn’t the only stage rookie in the new Broadway play
Henri Matisse Cuts Loose
In old age, French master made some of his most vibrant work, the cut-paper collages coming to Manhattan
Maroon 5 Falls Off the Bandwagon
The group hasn’t been a rock outfit for many years—and that’s just fine with Adam Levine
Life Lessons From One of the World’s Oldest Men
Charlie White, who died at 109, was able to separate the things he could control from the things that he could not
Quake Alert
In California, a brief heads-up
Richard Attenborough
Actor and director
Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol
American Ebola patients
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