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Stop telling women not to “take things personally”: Ed Champion and the plague of gendered criticism
Andi Zeisler
Women in creative industries receive such personal criticism that they're forced to have unreasonably thick skin
Hate this Congress? Bad news: The next one could be even worse
Elias Isquith
Amazingly, it's looking like we may soon pine for the relative glory days of our current dysfunction
Duggar daughter blames the Holocaust on evolution, then compares it to abortion
Jenny Kutner
Jessa Duggar, the young evangelical reality star, stirred up controversy on Instagram with an antiabortion comment
“He didn’t care if he destroyed himself as long as he hurt you”: The sad, disturbing case of Ed Champion
Laura Miller
The literary world put up with a mentally troubled, abusive troll for years. Here's why
GOP’s spiteful ploy vs. Holder: Why their confirmation demand is so absurd
Jim Newell
Ted Cruz and co. don't want to confirm an AG until next year -- but wait till you hear their confused arguments why
You don’t “have nothing to hide”: How privacy breaches are quietly controlling you
Falguni A. Sheth
Government data collection is scary for many reasons. But least understood: what it does to our personal creativity
“Straight-up propaganda”: Fox News, charlatans, conspiracy theorists and the religious fanatics endangering democracy
Joseph Heath
All demagoguery all the time: Fox News and American politics' epidemic of craziness
Dan Harmon: “I don’t feel like an underdog”
Daniel D'Addario
The "Community" creator on his new documentary, his polemical career and why he is rooting for network TV
Retweet me or I might die! Email, smartphones and the eternal correctness of Louis C.K.
Sara Scribner
Nonstop distraction and a need for instant gratification made one man quit his job, and mourn world before iPhones
Richard Dawkins gets it all wrong, yet again
George Estreich
Imagine a world in which Richard Dawkins responds sensitively on a complicated topic. We'll wait ...
Morning midterms update: 3 Senate contests have Princeton’s Sam Wang “tearing my hair out”
Luke Brinker
Plus: The latest on Obamacare at the ballot box, North Carolina's Senate race, early voting in Iowa, and Greg Orman
The 6 dopiest right-wing attacks on Obama
ERIC HANANOKI
The president's "latte salute" is just the latest manufactured scandal from the conservative media machine
Southern Baptist Convention kicks out church for being too tolerant of LGBT members
Jenny Kutner
The church slammed a congregation that adopted a "live and let live" approach to homosexuality
Newspaper apologizes for calling hockey player “dark guy in the middle” in photo caption
Prachi Gupta
The Vancouver Sun quickly removed the cutline of a photo of Jordan Subban
Your guide to Internet spoiler culture: Inside the vast network of “spoiler sites”
Prachi Gupta
Long before Netflix launched its new website, there was a teeming online community of spoiler-lovers
America’s most heinous judge: Why wife-beater Mark Fuller deserves more than resignation
Brad Friedman
After physically abusing his wives and children, here's what U.S. District Court Judge Mark Fuller really deserves
Roger Ebert was right: Free speech, Twitter and the Holocaust denier protected by the University of Illinois
Arthur Goldwag
At the Univ. of Illinois, the future film critic wrote wisely on free speech. Too bad the school hasn't listened
Morning midterms update: Dems claim ballot advantage in must-win Iowa
Luke Brinker
With just over a month to go until Election Day, the party says it has the edge in a crucial battleground
Wesleyan requires fraternities to admit female members
Jenny Kutner
Will allowing women to join the school's notorious "Rape Factory" do anything to curb sexual assault?
The right’s Alinsky problem: Desperate right-wing ploy to make “radicals” of Obama and Clinton
Simon Maloy
Conservatives obsess over a long-dead radical activist's links to Democrats, and lash out when nobody seems to care
Cut it out, atheists! Why it’s time to stop behaving like Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins
Steve Neumann
A dominant strain of atheism just loves to throw mud at the religious. Here's why it needs to stop
5 pieces of advice parents need to stop giving non-parents
John Kinnear
For starters, quit assuming all people want to have children or that life is somehow meaningless without them
Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform”
Jeff Bryant
There's big money in education "reform," and now it's flowing to tech companies that want to disrupt public schools
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