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Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week:
Horse_ebooks is human after all — The people behind the beloved spambot
Columbia professor Prabhjot Singh was attacked in NYC for being Sikh on Saturday — Read his op-ed for the Daily News: “My wife and I have no intention to move”
Scandal at Clinton Inc. — How Doug Band drove a wedge through a political dynasty
The tech intellectuals — The good, bad, and ugly among our new breed of cyber-critics, and the economic imperatives that drive them
Lena Dunham is fat and Angela Merkel is frumpy — The New York Times was right to notice the HBO star’s body at the Emmy Awards
The top 5 iOS7 ringtones reviewed — “You are folding laundry in the laundry room of your modest suburban Colorado home. You are pleased with this zen task. A cool breeze fondles the lace curtains of your open window.”
Why Generation Y yuppies are unhappy — Happiness = Reality – Expectations
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