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5 times the right flipped out over blasphemous depictions of Christianity
Amanda Marcotte
Conservatives love to crow about free speech, but their tune changes when their religion is the butt of the jokes
“Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” says he didn’t go to heaven after all
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Alex Malarkey wants you to stop believing in his bestselling story
A woman describes her sexual relationship with her estranged father
Jenny Kutner
Genetic Sexual Attraction is a phenomenon more prevalent than you'd think. Science of Us found one woman's story
In Touch’s dolled-up Bruce Jenner cover sparks outrage
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The magazine scrapes the bottom and gets everything wrong about gender
The supreme weirdness of Miranda July: How her debut novel gives “effortless” new meaning
Lydia Kiesling
"Effortless" is typically a compliment, but July’s book calls for a slightly more pejorative reading of the word
The Charlie Hebdo hypocrites: Meet the free-expression absolutists who aren’t so absolute outside of the Muslim world
Jim Sleeper
In China, Singapore and elsewhere, would-be warriors seldom defend "our" values against equally decisive attacks
The plight of the bitter nerd: Why so many awkward, shy guys end up hating feminism
Arthur Chu
MIT professor Scott Aaronson wrote a post about how feminism makes him feel like a monster. Here's what he meant
10 insane right-wing reactions to the Charlie Hebdo massacre
Janet Allon
Rush Limbaugh manages to tie the attack to Benghazi, while Gretchen Carlson blames Obama's failed war on terror
Erick Erickson compares firing of bigoted Atlanta fire chief to Charlie Hebdo attack
Luke Brinker
The senseless slaughter of 12 people is apparently similar to the dismissal of a rabid homophobe
A climate denying conspiracy theorist just became Brazil’s new minister of science
Lindsay Abrams
Aldo Rebelo rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, among other bizarre views
Check out this video of Bill Gates drinking water made from poop
Sarah Gray
"And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It’s that safe"
America’s most ambitious infrastructure project of the century: Why today’s high-speed rail launch is miraculous
David Dayen
Want to show the power of what government can achieve despite conservative opposition? Look at high-speed rail
Scalded alive: Undercover investigation reveals the gruesome fate of “spent” hens
Lindsay Abrams
The horrifying truth about what happens to hens once they're no longer able to lay eggs
A foursome opened up our relationship
Yoonj Kim
It started as just another fantasy. But trusting my boyfriend like this changed everything
Wild orcas may not survive climate change
Rachel Clark
If Chinook salmon populations continue to dwindle, killer whales could be driven to extinction
We get Huck Finn all wrong: Race, Mark Twain, children and myths of an American classic
Andrew Levy
Our sense of comedy and seriousness in "Huck Finn" says more about America now than America in Mark Twain's time
My obsession with a cold case
Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
Susie's murder was never solved, but a chance encounter in a graveyard led to my own personal version of "Serial"
“Fear can be the enemy of empathy”: Leslie Jamison on Ferguson, Ebola and America’s painful 2014
Michele Filgate
"Communal panic seemed to trump empathy," says the brilliant critic Leslie Jamison, looking back on long, hard 2014
2014’s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl'”
Laura Miller
A roundup of the most stylish writing and freshest ideas I read on the Internet in 2014
The Year in Uber scandals: A surge-priced cruise through the company’s biggest controversies
Anna Silman
2014 was the year investor Peter Thiel called Uber the “most ethically-challenged company in Silicon Valley"
Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly not educated enough for Marissa Mayer
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Yahoo CEO allegedly nixed the famous college dropout
“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
Erick Erickson: President Obama “hates America”
Luke Brinker
The right-wing pundit wonders why Obama ruined a perfect country
The propagandists have won: What Fox News and the pornography revolution have in common
Janine R. Wedel
Truthiness has replaced truth. Now that we all have our own facts, we may rue the day we personalized the news
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