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We must still hate our kids: Philadelphia and “education reformers” fight demented war on elementary schools
Jeff Bryant
No nurses, few textbooks, closed libraries: Money to urban schools is being starved, intentionally. It's just wrong
Anti-gay marriage group endorses pro-LGBT Democrats just to spite their gay GOP opponents
Luke Brinker
The National Organization for Marriage makes some bizarre picks in two House battlegrounds
Misogyny’s scary new warriors: How Gamergate has supplanted the Christian right
Amanda Marcotte
The evangelical movement is dying a slow death, but secular sexists are ready to carry its torch of hate
I’m not “that creepy guy from the Internet”: How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name
Arthur Chu
I've been that bitter, lonely gamer looking for someone to blame. And I'm devastated that it's come to this
Columnist who called Michael Brown an “animal” parts ways with West Virginia newspaper
Luke Brinker
Days after posting a racist rant to his personal blog, Don Surber is out at the Charleston Daily Mail
Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out: “I’m proud to be gay”
Peter Finocchiaro
Although Cook's sexuality has been an open secret for years, this is his first public acknowledgement
A guide to consensual BDSM sex: If you’re doing it right, it isn’t a buzz-kill
Tracy Clark-Flory
The accusations of abuse against Jian Ghomeshi, and the reaction to them, show how misinformed we are about kink
We must abandon Bill Cosby: A broken trust with women, black America
Brittney Cooper
He asked us to invest in the lie of his own life, and the lie of "respectability." We can't laugh with him anymore
Race, “catcalling” and #notallmen: Making sense of the viral street harassment video
Emily Gould
The woman in the video is white. Her harassers are not. Mining the subtexts of the week's most talked-about video
Hans von Spakovsky’s “voter fraud” fraud: Creating a panic over a minor problem
Simon Maloy
Conservatives' favorite "voter fraud" authority dreams up an army of non-citizen voters backing Democrats in 2014
Wingnut columnist who wants South to secede and form anti-gay country called Reagan fired from newspaper
Luke Brinker
The move comes less than a week after Douglas MacKinnon's flirtation with secession sparked widespread ridicule
Time magazine is just an embarrassing Internet troll now
Jeff Bryant
Quoting right-wing hacks and usual discredited nonsense, Time aims for outrage. Too bad the issue's so important
Gun extremists’ ghastly new low: A fight over “open carry” turns vulgar and scary
Amanda Gailey
Nuts fighting to save their "rights" aren't just demonstrating or issuing propaganda. Now they're getting personal
Hillary Clinton’s populism problem: What her awkward campaign trail comments reveal about her biggest weakness
Luke Brinker
As the former secretary of state eyes a 2016 bid, she's struggling to come to terms with the new Democratic Party
Chris Christie takes a prisoner: A lesson in Ebola panic gone wrong
Jim Newell
The New Jersey governor has finally freed his Ebola prisoner. It's astonishing that it even came to that
How I got a SCOTUS ruling changed: My unusual Ruth Bader Ginsburg story
Brad Friedman
With the Texas voter ID dissent now fixed, a few more veterans may now be able to vote. Here's what happened
America’s great terrorist mystery: When our allies and enemies engage in the same “evil”
Marcy Wheeler
From ISIL to the Saudis, our foreign policy -- and very sense of right and wrong -- can be very difficult to decode
Can Lena Dunham save snark?
Justine Bateman
The sardonic tone once so fresh to TV has become ubiquitous and unbearable. The "Girls" star may be its last hope
Why women get attacked by trolls: A new study unpacks the digital gender safety gap
Soraya Chemaly
A Pew report breaks down the dramatic differences in the way men and women are treated online
Battle of the trolls: Kathleen Hale reveals the war raging between authors and readers
Laura Miller
A novelist who stalked an online critic shows us how twisted the dynamic between writers and commenters has gotten
RIP “mansplaining”: The Internet ruined one of our most useful terms
Benjamin Hart
At this point, the term is actually inflaming the online gender wars instead of clarifying them
The great Amazon debate: A leading Amazon critic and a self-publishing rock star try to find common ground
Rob Spillman, Joe Konrath
Amazon fans and foes often talk past each other without engaging. Here, two fierce writers make their best case
Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives out Notorious RBG t-shirts as gifts
Jenny Kutner
The Supreme Court justice says she shares her "large supply" of merch from the Tumblr homage with friends
Paul Krugman unloads on Amazon: Economist sounds off on why its heavy-handed tactics “hurt America”
Luke Brinker
Wading into the debate over the online retailer's growing power, Krugman assails its "undue influence"
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