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“So you lost your dick?”: Inside an Ivy league transphobia nightmare
Gabriel Arana
Meredith Talusan thought her fancy liberal college would be a safe space for a trans student. Here's the ugly truth
Why New York’s fracking ban is a victory for communities everywhere
Lindsay Abrams
From here on out, one fractivist tells Salon, "it'll be hard to get people to believe there's nothing they can do"
Rejoice! National Geographic Photo Contest Winners are finally here
Joanna Rothkopf
These dramatic images tell powerful stories about our world
Is this really the end for Dov Charney?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
American Apparel officially ousts the controversial founder, but he's still playing for keeps
The right’s grossest race lie: Delusional conservatives and the truth about MLK
Paul Rosenberg
Post-Ferguson and Staten Island, the right's again claiming MLK would be on their side. Let's put the lie to rest
Updated: Allen West plagiarism bombshell: Tea Party hero lifted passages from viral Internet post
Luke Brinker
Media watchdog exposes the former GOP congressman
Marginalia’s moment: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and the joys of writing in books
Laura Miller
It's time to stop fetishizing books as sacred objects and start happily defacing them
“If Dad made more money, you wouldn’t work, right?”: How my daughter learned gender dynamics I didn’t mean to teach her
Mary Elizabeth Williams
I thought I was raising my daughter to question norms -- till she asked a question that surprised me
“You can’t criticize Sorkin without becoming one of his characters”: The infuriating futility of arguing with Aaron Sorkin
Erin Keane
Again and again, Sorkin's response to criticism has boiled down to "if you were smarter, you'd see that I'm right"
Thomas Frank: Ann Coulter and David Brooks play a sneaky, unserious class card
Thomas Frank
Post-Ferguson and Staten Island, conservatives are trying to divide with the snob card again. Too bad Dems let them
Mindfulness’ “truthiness” problem: Sam Harris, science and the truth about Buddhist tradition
Ronald Purser, Andrew Cooper
Sam Harris wants practitioners out of religion business. But the supposed science behind it is its own mythology
Now they’re trying to steal 2016: The demented GOP schemes to rewire the Electoral College and elect a Tea Party president
Paul Rosenberg
Republicans know they can't win the popular vote. You won't believe sick schemes they've launched to get around it
Chicken farmer who spoke out about factory farm abuses immediately audited by Perdue
Lindsay Abrams
The farmer faces potential disciplinary actions in what some speculate was an act of retaliation
“It makes me really depressed”: From UVA to Cosby, the rape denial playbook that won’t go away
Katie McDonough
Rolling Stone's piece on sexual violence may have been imperfect -- but here's why its backlash was pre-ordained
How the Department of Defense is using big data to combat sex trafficking
Alex Pearlman
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is giving law enforcement a leg up on catching perpetrators
The Internet is not enough: Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” Malcolm Gladwell and the importance of real connections
Ethan Zuckerman
Trust Gladwell and "Graceland": True connection and cultural exchange requires "bridge figures" to cement ties
How Cosby and Ghomeshi-gate snowballed: From a cone of silence to a chorus of women speaking out about sexual assault
Tracy Clark-Flory
Popular definitions of rape and sexual assault -- and the way we talk about them -- have finally started to change
“Gentle, G-rated, dignified”: How did Mark Whitaker’s biography get Cosby so wrong?
Erin Keane
The one-star reviews on "Cosby's" Amazon page have become a delightful counterweight to the book's false narrative
Mike Huckabee compares Ferguson protesters to Medgar Evers’ killers in grotesquely bigoted blog post
Joanna Rothkopf
"You don't see any monuments to Bull Connor or the killers of Medgar Evers"
The Wrap delivers the worst Cosby Op-Ed yet
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Wrap suggests the comedian has been raped by the media. Its editor's apology isn't much better
Creationist Ken Ham “explains” climate change: Earth is just “settling down” after the Great Flood
Lindsay Abrams
"Creationists are not against science!" the evangelical leader insists
From Stuff White People Like to #NotYourShield: How irony is killing activism
Arthur Chu
We're so used to skewering dopey progressives who try too hard that we forget what it takes to create real change
Forget the “polar vortex” backlash: How I learned to love an overused media buzzword
Adam Sobel
Scientists complain about misidentifying this frigid meteorological phenomenon. Here's why I came to accept it
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