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McDonald’s is still killing us: Reforms aside, the food industry hasn’t solved the biggest problem — itself
Lindsay Abrams
"Healthier" fast and processed food remains anything but
Baltimore’s violent protesters are right: Smashing police cars is a legitimate political strategy
Benji Hart
It's crucial to see non-violence as a tactic, not a philosophy. If it fails to win people over it's a futile tactic
You won’t learn everything you need to know about Baltimore from “The Wire,” but it’s a start
Scott Timberg
Show creator David Simon pleads for nonviolent protests: "A riot is a riot is a riot"
America’s biggest poultry producer pledges to stop using human antibiotics
Lindsay Abrams
A destructive company moves in a constructive direction
The American dream goes to hell: How colleges are shutting their doors—and leaving students with the bill
David Dayen
At its height, Corinthian Colleges ran 127 different campuses. Now it's abandoning its students to crippling debt
Minecraft strikes a small blow for gender balance
Mary Elizabeth Williams
One small step against the "masculine as default"
Conservative media falls for a hoax: Harry Reid injury truthers just got played
Jim Newell
Right-wingers will believe anything about Harry Reid, which makes for some excellent pranking opportunities
North Dakota Republican admits Grindr user is “outing” him in retaliation for antigay vote
David Ferguson
Rep. Randy Boehning of Fargo claims another legislator is plotting against him, but won't say who.
Brian Williams is totally screwed: NBC News investigation sticks a fork in soon-to-be-former anchor
Joanna Rothkopf
"I thought his chances were slim to none, and you can make a case that slim just left town"
Terrifying video shows Mt. Everest avalanche demolishing basecamp
Joanna Rothkopf
"Some people were picked up and tossed across the glacier for a hundred yards"
Faith must fight capitalism: Forget theological purity — the church needs a revolutionary spirit
Robin Meyers
Organized religion in the West seems both lifeless and pregnant with possibility. Here's how we fix it
“Your husband is a brave man”: What people really think about a sex writer’s marriage
Tracy Clark-Flory
I'm a feminist sex writer who's married to either the boldest guy or the biggest wimp, depending on who you ask
Scott Walker, forever tarnished: Republican governors have tanked the GOP brand
Paul Rosenberg
Walker, Christie and Jindal were supposed to show off GOP's deep bench. They highlighted incompetence instead
4 horrific sex-related injuries
Carrie Weisman
Anything done in the pursuit of passion has the potential to end badly. Sex is no exception
“Rolling Stone has a lot to answer for”: Jon Krakauer on campus rape, victim backlash and why “Missoula” was the hardest book he’s had to write
Laura Miller
The celebrated author of "Into the Wild" investigates rapes in a football-worshiping college town
Jon Stewart blasts Secret Service: “History’s most advanced and somewhat nefarious security network” got fooled by a weirdo in a gyrocopter
Colin Gorenstein
Only in America, emails get analyzed like Shakespeare -- and a man can land a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn
America’s real education scandal: Teachers go to jail while dysfunctional charter schools get a pass
Jeff Bryant
Twelve Atlanta teachers face prison for racketeering, but they're hardly the only ones gaming our education system
The right’s new Clinton obsession just went mainstream: How a sketchy Hillary “exposé” hooked the New York Times
Heather Digby Parton
The right's propaganda machine duped the media on the Clintons once before. Now they could be doing it again
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is hurting Islam: Why her radical reformation is in desperate need of reform
Haroon Moghul
Not only is she quick to pathologize Muslims, but her solution for extremism is as blinkered as it is ill-fated
Ross Douthat’s “red pill” garbage: How his take on privilege is just a defense of the powerful
Katie McDonough
The New York Times columnist says he wants to complicate how we see power, but all he does it flatten it
Twitter’s crusade against online abuse: Now updated to make trolling even easier!
Jenny Kutner
The platform now allows users to accept private messages from anyone -- because that won't boost harassment at all
“The worst elements of the department”: New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet
Joaquin Sapien
A site hosting posts from officers past and present confirms our worst fears about the NYPD
A young man who survived “ex-gay ministries” taught me what it means to be a Christian
Rachel Held Evans
The campaign against marriage equality sent me fleeing from the church. Here's what brought me back
Gwyneth’s SNAP Challenge bombed, of course: Living in poverty takes skills she didn’t bother to learn
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The actress admits she caved -- of course she did
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