McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s Ten Most-Read Pieces of the Year: Our Ten Most-Read Articles of 2015 by McSweeney's Internet Tendency

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1. Reasons You Were Not Promoted That Are Totally Unrelated to Gender
by Homa Mojtabai

2. An Honest College Rejection Letter
by Mimi Evans

3. The SCOTUS Marriage Decision in Haiku
by Daniela Lapidous

4. Nihilistic Password Security Questions
by Soheil Rezayazdi

5. First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
by Lisa Nikolidakis

6. The Four Horsemen of Gentrification
by Zain Khalid (11/2/15)

7. Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here: A Shakespearean Guide to the 2016 Republican Primary
by Emily Uecker (8/6/15)

8. An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar
by Vijith Assar (9/3/15)

9. Taylor Swift: A Socratic Dialogue
by Jared Smith (9/2/15)

10. What a Straight Man’s Favorite Musical Says About Him
by Mara Wilson (2/10/15)