February 12, 2017 Archive February 2017

Noam Chomsky's "Responsibility of Intellectuals" after 50 years: It's an even heavier responsibility now

Bad times make great art: The AIDS crisis and the New Queer Cinema

Opiate For the Masses: Do you like to watch? Your secrets are not safe with your TV

Alcohol companies fail to follow their own ad rules during the 2017 Super Bowl

Democrats elect civil rights lawyer as nominee for US House

Officials hate each other: 5 disturbing revelations about what's happening inside Trump's White House

Hooking up as a core requirement: Casual sex in college isn't optional anymore, "it's an imperative"

WATCH: Sex on campus makes college kids feel inadequate

You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" organic strawberry donuts

Blowing smoke: Tobacco giant uses Al Sharpton, other black leaders to combat menthol restrictions

"You just killed the weed man": Adventures in buying (legal) pot

US withdraws stay request in transgender bathroom case

WATCH: 5 things you probably didn’t know were invented by African Americans

Romania rising: Populism by different means and without ugliness

What’s next for Standing Rock? Sioux tribe is calling on people to flood Capitol Hill in March

Trump's supporters believe a false narrative of white victimhood — and the data proves it

Our man in the Middle East: The confusing worldview of Trump aide Derek Harvey

One nation, under cops: 3 reasons to believe America could become a police state under Trump

A white nationalist fantasy: Donald Trump's America is not "made for you and me"

WATCH: NBA makes slam dunk with eSports deal

WATCH: "Uh, oh, it's Moana", says Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, explaining new immigration policy

Can Kellyanne Conway be redeemed?

WATCH: Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump on "The People's Court"

Finding love in a hopeless place: Why Tinder is so "evilly satisfying"

Why disasters repeat themselves: We ignore the lessons of the past at our own expense

An independent California isn’t that wacky of an Idea

Langston Hughes saw Donald Trump coming: "Let America Be America Again" vs. MAGA

Are the Grammys really about good music? Sometimes, but not often enough

Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America's cult of DIY personal security

Look Again: The week's most compelling images from around the globe

Look Again: The week's most compelling images from around the globe