Our weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet.
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Jon Stewart’s Big Announcement - by Sarah Larson, The New Yorker
"One of the key elements of “The Daily Show” ’s perspective has been this emphasis on deriding politicians’ decisiveness, hastiness, and machismo, as well as the voters who admire them for it. In doing so, it defends empathy and complex thinking. Because people who value such things often get crushed under the boots of people who value power, much of “The Daily Show” ’s humor is a form of relief."
How To Have 10 Dates In Five Days – by Jess McAllen, Sunday Star Times
“There was a time when I could look back on my barren love life and count on one hand the number of first dates I'd experienced. That was last week. Then I moseyed into the world of smartphone dating. A challenge by my editor-turned-pimp: 10 dates, five days.”
38 Hot Sex Moves That Will Make You A Better Feminist – Cosmopolitan’s Joanna Coles and the fourth—or is it fifth?—wave – by Noreen Malone, NY Mag
“And while all women’s magazines deal in the currency of aspiration — the ability to engineer a precise combination of self-loathing and yearning is attractive to advertisers — Cosmo has tried to distinguish itself from the competition by actually providing a game plan for how to get there, and by keeping the aspirations much more attainable.”
Is the Best Picture Race Already Over? Hollywood Self-Obsession and the ‘Birdman’ Juggernaut – by Mark Harris, Grantland
“If Birdman goes home a winner, the decision will be very much in line with recent Academy tastes. In fact, given the Best Picture wins three years ago for The Artist and two years ago for Argo, it would be the third time in four years that people who make movies have given top honors to a movie about people who make movies.”
Consent Isn’t Enough: The Troubling Sex of Fifty Shades - by Emma Green, The Atlantic
"It's one thing to explore power dynamics; it's another to use power to manipulate and control your partner. At several points in the story, it's unclear what Ana really wants from sex. But perhaps that's the most complicated aspect of all: How do people know what they want, really?"
The Great Grammy Hypocrisy – by Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic
“The Grammys end up elevating one type of person, strengthening old ideas about what kinds of art and artists are worthy of broad cultural respect. They also shut out some of the most vibrant, boundary-pushing work happening today.”
You Have No Idea What Happened – by Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker
“Two and a half years after the event, she remembered it as if it were yesterday: the TV, the terrible news, the call home. She could say with absolute certainty that that’s precisely how it happened. Except, it turns out, none of what she remembered was accurate.”
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