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“This morning my worst nightmare came true”
Emma Eisenberg
Hate speech aimed at a beloved biracial family in this tiny West Virginia town sparks fear -- and a "love fest"
“I’m not saying you’re wrong”: Why Abbi is the best part of “Broad City”
Laura Miller
The creators of this show are the modern-day heirs to the Marx Brothers -- but Abbi is wildly underappreciated
Rocky Balboa just punched me: The neuroscience behind our tears, fears and flinches at the movies
Jeffrey Zacks
We know we're at the movies, but sometimes jump, bawl and squeal anyway — and genius brain science explains why
Koch brothers/charter school nightmare: “White kids get to go to a school with a Montessori approach while children of color get eye control”
Jeff Bryant
A fight over education in Nashville might come your way next: It's a proxy for dangerous right-wing education ideas
Margaret Cho’s squeamish Globes cameo: Why her North Korean bit was so weird to watch
Sonia Saraiya
The Golden Globes are usually Hollywood's chance to pat themselves on the back. Then Margaret Cho goose-stepped in
“That minimum-wage job saved our home”: Elizabeth Warren’s crusade toward higher wages
Joan Walsh
Democrats are moving beyond coddling Wall Street and minimalist minimum wage politics. Will it take a civil war?
“I saw my husband die before my eyes”
Charles Ornstein
“NY Med” filmed Mark Chanko’s final moments without the approval of his family. It's a familiar story in reality TV
GOP’s coming horror show: Why new Congress may be even worse than you think
Heather Digby Parton
Get the popcorn ready. GOP House on GOP Senate action -- and why the establishment is really so worried
Arguments with my mom, the cop
Jen Fitzgerald
As cases of police brutality pile up, I find myself caught between the woman who raised me and my own worldview
My juvenile confinement horror: What it’s like inside Chicago’s infamous jail for kids
Mark Dostert
I wanted to mentor some of the toughest teens in Chicago. So I joined them in a frightening lockup they called home
A foursome opened up our relationship
Yoonj Kim
It started as just another fantasy. But trusting my boyfriend like this changed everything
Richard Nixon’s favorite liberal: Secrets of the strangest political marriage
Stephen Hess
Nixon needed to reach across the aisle. Moynihan needed to reclaim a voice. Their partnership made history
Chain restaurants are killing us: Billionaire bankers, minimum-wage toilers and the nasty truth about fast-food nation
Thomas Frank
This is what we eat, this is where we work, this is what we do to our land: It's nasty and must be rethought
The man I married twice
Sjanna Leighton
Our first marriage ended in disaster. But life's disappointments also brought something else -- a second chance
Over-testing our kids is not the answer — it’s the problem
Anya Kamenetz
In the era of No Child Left Behind and Common Core, we've forgotten about the learning and development that matter
Why activists and feminists get so many death threats
Valerie Tarico
Activists of all stripes reflect on the dangers of standing up for controversial ideas in the age of social media
The end of my snooping
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez
How I stopped digging into emails, cellphones, notebooks, journals, photos albums -- and learned to trust my gut
The day I left my son in the car
Kim Brooks
I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life
Meeting my husband’s killer
Kathleen Murray
She hijacked a plane and planted a bomb that took Brian's life. But our strange correspondence freed us both
Héroes for sale: Teófilo Stevenson, Yasiel Puig and the plight of the Cuban athlete
Brin-Jonathan Butler
Immigration restrictions may soon be over, but for decades Cuba's stars have faced an impossible choice: Stay or go
“It’s more common to see a blue hedgehog than a person of color as a protagonist”: Inside the whitewashed world of video games
Arthur Chu
Arthur Chu talks to #INeedDiverseGames' creator about why we need to see ourselves reflected in the games we play
My night at the cuddle party
JD Irpino
After seven years without a date, I was desperate to be touched. Desperate enough for weirdness like this
My week in the right-wing lie machine: When Fox News, Twitchy and Montel Williams declared war on me
David Masciotra
When I wrote the troops don't protect my freedoms, the response was ugly, vitriolic and confirmed everything I said
Along with great cocktails, the Patterson House has rules. That’s why I love it
Adam Ross
No cellphones, no name dropping, no fighting. You leave with the person who brought you. What kind of bar is this?
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