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- Why some New York restaurateurs are looking forward to the end of tipping http://www.theawl.com/2016/03/after-tipping 70 comments
- Lego City – NYC Hudson Yards http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/lego-city 13 comments
- The Chicago End-Times: The slow humiliation of Chicago’s most vital newspaper http://www.theawl.com/2015/10/the-chicago-end-times 12 comments
- The Uber endgame: privatized public transit http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/ubiquity 152 comments
- Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked 133 comments
- One Nuclear Bomb Will Ruin Your Whole Startup Bubble http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/one-nuclear-bomb-will-ruin-your-whole-startup-bubble 12 comments
- Firefox Is As Fast As Chrome Now, And No One Cares https://www.theawl.com/2017/06/firefox-is-as-fast-as-chrome-now-and-no-one-cares/ 81 comments technology
- "Tempo presente" è stata una rivista di politica e arte fondata nel 1956 dalla CIA http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked 8 comments italy
- Where Should We Bury the Dead Racist Literary Giants? http://www.theawl.com/2014/09/where-should-we-bury-the-dead-racist-literary-giants 17 comments books
- The Uni Watch Story: How One Writer Brought Jersey Design to the Mainstream http://www.theawl.com/2014/07/the-uniform-outfit 8 comments baseball
- Internet, Why So Blue? http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/internet-why-so-blue 58 comments web_design
- All The Presidents’ Menus http://www.theawl.com/2012/06/all-the-presidents-menus 84 comments history
- When TED Talks Turn Evil: What If These TED Talks Were Horribly, Unspeakably Wrong? http://www.theawl.com/2014/01/what-if-these-seven-famous-ted-talks-are-just-totally-wrong 4 comments indepthstories
- The Golden Era Of Spam Comments Has Ended http://www.theawl.com/2013/12/the-new-spammer-panic 4 comments technology
- Fired for a tweet? http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/millennial-fired-for-tweet?fb_action_ids=10152076555144196&fb_action_types=og.recommends 26 comments technology
- Solving The Broken Crossword Puzzle Economy http://www.theawl.com/2012/12/solving-the-broken-crossword-puzzle-economy 11 comments business
- The Sugar Wars: Science's Fierce, Geeky Debate Over Soda http://www.theawl.com/2012/10/the-sugar-wars 3 comments science
- What Paper Means in Prison: Twenty-five-year-old T. H., serving a 45-day sentence found solace by reading more than 20 books to help pass the time. From the County Jail, he wrote, "I get absorbed in another world while I read but I'm disappointed when I snap back to reality and realize where I am." http://www.theawl.com/2012/06/paper-in-prison 72 comments books
- A list ranking the deaths of Roman Emperors according to how "hard core" they were. http://www.theawl.com/2012/05/roman-emperor-deaths?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+theawl+%28the+awl%29&utm_content=google+reader. 12 comments history
- The hidden passion of Mark Twain: On a December night in 1905, the New York City chapter of the Society of Illustrators managed to do something many thought impossible. With one calculated stroke they left Mark Twain, author and noted quipster, speechless. http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/the-riddle-of-mark-twains-passion-for-joan-of-arc 4 comments books
- "What Books Make You Cringe To Remember?" Literary-inclined people revisit the books they loved back in the day. http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/what-books-make-you-cringe-to-remember 49 comments books
- Occupy LA Is Imploding http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/the-night-occupy-los-angeles-tore-itself-in-two 15 comments politics
- A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace | The Awl http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/a-supposedly-true-thing-jonathan-franzen-said-about-david-foster-wallace 42 comments books
- Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/inside-david-foster-wallaces-private-self-help-library/ 8 comments philosophy
- Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/inside-david-foster-wallaces-private-self-help-library 14 comments books
- WI Gov. Walker's bill allows firing at will of state employees http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/wisconsins-war-on-unions-coming-soon-to-a-town-near-you?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+theawl+%28the+awl%29 6 comments politics
- Egyptian Blogger: "We Don't Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone." http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/we-dont-expect-any-help-from-america-just-to-leave-us-alone 9 comments worldnews
- Goldman Sachs report: Do extended unemployment benefits increase unemployment? No. http://www.theawl.com/2011/01/do-extended-unemployment-benefits-increase-unemployment-no 3 comments economy
- University of Phoenix founder quoted as saying "This is a corporation... coming here is not a rite of passage. We are not trying to develop value systems or go in for that 'expand their minds' bullshit.'" http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/how-the-for-profit-college-can-destroy-your-life 25 comments reddit.com
- The End of the World Began on October 5, 2010 http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-compostable-bags 3 comments reddit.com
- Sarah Palin exposed as being a fake hunter? http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/sarah-palin-the-tv-star-exposes-sarah-palin-the-fake-hunter 3 comments reddit.com
- Hate Harry Potter? Probably not as much as this gal does. "Ethical or pedagogical, literary and political sins" in Harry Potter. http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/harry-potter-and-the-incredibly-conservative-aristocratic-childrens-club 7 comments books
- Unemployed English Girl to Wed Soldier from Welfare Family http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/unemployed-english-girl-to-wed-soldier-from-welfare-family 6 comments worldnews
- NPR Should Have Let Juan Williams Go Years Ago http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/npr-should-have-let-juan-williams-go-years-ago 5 comments politics
- The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/the-rise-of-reddit-4chan-and-digg-get-the-credit-while-reddit-booms 32 comments reddit.com
- Sometimes you learn little things about how the Internet works and it's like, ohhhhhh! Of course! http://www.theawl.com/2010/08/how-the-internet-works-advertiser-provided-editorial-infographics 3 comments reddit.com
- The Bookmobile as rural filesharing network http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/the-invention-of-the-bookmobile-rural-filesharing-networks 3 comments books
- New Zealand wild octopus steals a diver's video camera and films the struggle with the diver to get it back. No, I'm not making this up. http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/octopus-steals-camera-swims-away-directs-first-film?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+theawl+%28the+awl%29&utm_content=google+reader 7 comments reddit.com
- Dear Conservative Movement, Stop Ruining My Life. (by a conservative) http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/dear-conservative-movement-stop-ruining-my-life-by-michael-brendan-dougherty 42 comments politics
- If you believe we are witnessing the death of Print News, see this shockingly illustrative graph showing "free-falling" circulation numbers http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/a-graphic-history-of-newspaper-circulation-over-the-last-two-decades 34 comments business