Table of Contents

July 29, 2013

Cover Story

Sex: Theory & Practice

Twentysomethings can never leave their lovers; a klatch of pickup artists spar over what counts as relationship success.

Plus: Lusty micro-memoirs of first times, sneaky cheating, and trysts everywhere from the office to a church.

On the Cover: Medusa II (2012), by Leah Yerpe.

Features

The Blip

Following the 2008 crash, the country has been waiting for the engines of economic growth to send the GDP soaring again.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Anarchists of the House

The most hard-core Republicans in Congress are trying out a radically new, self-negating form of governance: one in which it becomes impossible.

By Jonathan Chait

Intelligencer

Departments

Strategist

Culture

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