Jeanne Marie Laskas | GQ | 21 August 2012 Buying guns in America. In Yuma, Arizona, there are family nights at the shooting range, ladies' nights, birthday parties. It's the liberals who are stupid and scary. And assault rifles make great gifts for six-year-olds Comments Anonymous | Playboy | 20 August 2012 And this month's centrefold is... Britain's atheist-in-chief. If only. "I think a particular god like Zeus or Jehovah is as unlikely as the tooth fairy, but the idea of some kind of creative intelligence is not quite so ridiculous" Comments Eve Ensler | Huffington Post | 20 August 2012 And still he won't stand down. In the meantime, here's a powerful piece of writing in which the author of The Vagina Monologues takes aim at the Missouri congressman for his recent comments about rape (h/t Daniel Lippman) Comments CJ Chivers | NYT | 21 August 2012 Reporter embeds with the "Lions of Tawhid", rebel group fighting near Aleppo. Mix of civilians who took up arms and army defectors who joined them. One of many such bands that are gradually getting organised and battle-hardened Comments Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 20 August 2012 Bill Clinton was a past master at cosying up to billionaire donors. But President Obama doesn't like it. Good for him. He believes he has more important things to do and wants to reform campaign finance. But what will it cost him? Comments Amy Shira Teitel | Crux | 23 August 2012 Already know why the sky's blue during the day? Well done. But did you know it's starting to turn red at night now. Here's why it's happening, why it's important and what we can expect from the night sky in the future Comments David Conn | London Review Of Books | 22 August 2012 How English football became a business. Superb overview from 1980s to present day. Key moment was creation of the Premier League in 1992, a money grab by the big clubs that cut funding from the rest of football Comments Stephen Moss | Guardian | 21 August 2012 "Climbing the ladders between decks exhausts me; I am forever hitting my head on protruding bits of metal; and once in the control room, while leaning against the periscope, I stumble backwards and accidentally press a button" Comments | 
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