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Nathaniel Stein

Nathaniel Stein is a writer living in Los Angeles.

articles/2013/07/01/funny-pages-how-the-national-lampoon-made-american-humor/130701-national-lampoon-tease_f3zctm
National Lampoon

Funny Pages

<p>Infamous for its unrestrained, boundary-pushing, kill-all, farcical, and sometimes tasteless parody,&nbsp;<i>National Lampoon </i>gave a generation serious laughs, but why was it so influential? Nathaniel Stein on a new history of the magazine.</p>

Nathaniel Stein

articles/2013/06/12/why-i-am-blowing-the-whistle/130612-whistblower-stein-tease_m1e5nf
Leaker

Why I Am Blowing the Whistle

First there was Edward Snowden exposing the NSA’s secrets, and now it’s Nathaniel Stein’s turn to reveal his own spying.

Nathaniel Stein

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