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SCIENCE

The Lethality of Loneliness

For the first time in history, we understand how isolation can ravage the body and brain. Now, what should we do about it?

BY JUDITH SHULEVITZ

HEALTH CARE

My Obamacare Anxieties

The five scenarios that keep this reform advocate up at night

BY JONATHAN COHN

IRS SCANDAL

Notes on a Trumped Up Scandal

The IRS fiasco shows that conservatives can be PC too.

BY NOAM SCHEIBER

TECHNOLOGY

The Next Elizabeth Warren

In fighting lousy, overpriced Internet providers, Susan Crawford has found a populist crusade for our time. What's next? 

BY JOHN B. JUDIS

TECH

The Delete Squad

Right now the rules of what you can—and can't—say on the internet are being rewritten by twenty-something tech executives. Cross your fingers.

BY JEFFREY ROSEN

TECH

Spring Break for Nerds

Every year, the tech elite and their legions of hangers-on gather in Austin to binge-network, binge-drink and "change the world." It is glorious. It is absurd. It is South by Southwest.

BY NOREEN MALONE

BABIES

The Hell of American Day Care

An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children.

BY JONATHAN COHN

POLITICS

How to Make Millions Off Obama

Former Obama officials are starting to cash-in—and the angst and infighting are intense.

BY NOAM SCHEIBER

MIDDLE EAST

The End of the Two-State Solution

We're on the cusp of a generational shift that will make the dream of peace not just implausible but impossible.

BY BEN BIRNBAUM

POLITICS

What Gun Owners Really Want

I’ve owned six guns. I’ve drawn them on bad guys. I want to be understood.

BY WALTER KIRN

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