The drink that helped me see myself
The pause I needed in the San Antonio heat
A transgender Army bride in the '80s
"Are you out of your f**king mind?" I said. "There’s no way in hell we can be together if you join the Army"
Drawing to survive a malignant system
Moliere Dimanche would use anything he could scrounge up — pieces of folders, old letters — as canvases
Fake news and the "other white meat"
The iconic ad campaign changed what we thought we knew about meat, and set the stage for the age of spin
Smart Watch: CNN brings notorious "RBG"
The CNN debut of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's portrait airs the same week as the debuts of "Mayans M.C." and "The Purge"
Movie theaters having a great summer
Disney has nearly doubled its sales from last summer
Is freelancing the future of employment?
Freelancing is often portrayed as liberating, empowering, and even glamorous, but the reality is far more complex
A wet, hot Trumpian summer finally ends
It was the summer of Singapore, Helsinki, "children in cages" and Michael Cohen. But there was ever so much more
What to read: Books for back to school
Sarah Weinman's "The Real Lolita"; R.O. Kwon's "The Incendiaries"; plus butchering, art history and Russian hermits
Your kid may be vaping more than tobacco
Some experts say the dangers of pot vaping among kids are receiving less attention than they should
We don’t need to "rethink college"
Conservatives whine that traditional education is under attack from the left. They have no facts to back that up
NCAA ends probe into MSU Nassar response
Nassar pleaded guilty this year to assaulting athletes while working as a sports doctor for MSU
Facebook and the "two-feed solution"
Mark Zuckerberg's company can resolve its current dilemma. But only if it faces the truth about its hypocrisy
How to blow $700 billion and lose wars
Step 1: Buy the most expensive weapons in history. Step 2: Don't use them, since they mostly don't work
Supreme Court deportation order ignored
Homeland Security Department still won’t tell immigrants when or where to show up in court
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"Incivility" and the rise of fascism
Complaints about civility avoid the big questions of the Trump era: Why is America sliding into authoritarianism?
PI on living in a surveillance culture
Is there any privacy left, let alone a right to privacy?
The ruthless pursuit of online "likes"
We have found a convenient, visible, automated means of evaluating other humans.
Neo-Nazis target Gillum with robocalls
Andrew Gillum became the first black man to ever receive a major party nomination to be Florida’s governor
Kremlin rooting for in GOP midterms
Russia hopes to help Trump by promoting his economic successes and by cultivating relationships with GOP officials
Inmate's guide to earning 24 cents/hour
I was in the top earning bracket in prison. According to the state, I’m worth a few large cups of coffee per month
Colbert: Fallon hair tussle "overblown"
Stephen Colbert says of Jimmy Fallon's Trump hair tousle: "I think it's highly overblown"