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Obama’s tears, America’s tragedy: Behind Fox News mockery lies uncomfortable truth about our failed politics
Andrew O'Hehir
American masculinity is built on maudlin sentiment -- but Obama's tears reflect a deep grief with no clear remedy
Clinton marriage mystique: How their partnership went from liability to asset — especially for younger voters
Scott Timberg
Pop culture shifts and gender changes could -- weirdly -- make Hillary's marriage to Bill a campaign strength
Rahm Emanuel won’t fix anything: His tepid police reforms ignore Chicago’s dark history of abuse & torture
Heather Digby Parton
The Chicago Police Department's problems run much deeper than the mayor seems willing to admit
Uber fail: Why the start-up giant stumbled in Europe — and how it could happen in the U.S.
Elias Isquith
Wall Street's favorite "disruptor" thought its usual strategy would work in Germany. It got walloped instead
“Would we even be here if Julian Acox was white?” Race, self-defense and making of a murder charge
Gabriel Urza
Self-defense, or first-degree murder? A stand your ground state, and a black defendant. The trial you won't believe
Delusional over “Parks and Recreation”: Sorry conservatives, but Leslie Knope is not a fascist
Elias Isquith
How a conservative's troll-y hot take about "Parks and Recreation" speaks to a more widespread and dangerous threat
“It gets me mad”: Tearful, determined Obama renews hope tighter gun regs are possible in inspiring speech
Amanda Marcotte
The president, passionate and steadfast, lays out desperately needed plan to close gun loopholes
K-Stew and “Saoirse From the Block” charm NYC film critics as award season heats up
Andrew O'Hehir
"Carol" reigns at controversy-free NYC critics' dinner, where K-Stew goes humble and Kevin Kline cuts loose
“We get it, you love giant penises”: The Trevor Noah Texas gun-culture takedown you need to see
Sarah Burris
"If you see something, say something" -- unless it's just a white guy with an assault rifle in Texas
Turning Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby: Sorry, conservatives, there’s a massive difference between their sex abuse allegations
Amanda Marcotte
Conservatives play gotcha with Clinton sexual abuse allegations, but skepticism doesn't make feminists hypocritical
Chicago police vs. the truth: Inside the city’s long history of unpunished & systematic police lying
Daniel Denvir
When Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by an officer, fellow cops tried to cover it up. This isn't an aberration
Gun fanatics are winning the Republican civil war
Heather Digby Parton
When even Paul Ryan is viewed with suspicion, what chance is there of reining in 2nd amendment extremists?
One’s a “patriot.” One is dead: Ammon Bundy, Tamir Rice and the real story about race, Oregon and whiteness in America
Chauncey DeVega
Oregon is about guns, right-wing media and state violence as well as race. But it shows our racial inequity clearly
Larry Wilmore’s epic celebration of Bill Cosby charges: “Yes! We didn’t forget about you motherf**ker — and neither did the justice system!
Sarah Burris
"Finally, regardless of what happens next, they're being heard. And that's a start," Wilmore said.
How America’s anti-immigrant hysteria just hit an unprecedented new low
David Dayen
By way of a harsh (and previously rare) new deportation tactic, the government is putting people in real danger
The Bundy siege is a wake-up call: American extremists are getting desperate — and dangerous
Edwin Lyngar
People like the Bundy family are on the decline in America. But before they disappear, they're going to raise hell
2016’s pop culture-versaries: The films and albums celebrating milestones this year
Scott Timberg
From the Beatles to "Ferris Bueller" to Taylor Swift, here are the influences we'll be talking about this year
Justice reform’s real problem: What’s standing in the way of fixing the system isn’t policy, it’s us
Elias Isquith
A recent summit on reform showcased that elites of all stripes support change. Here's why that's not enough
They’d be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff
Chauncey DeVega
Armed white men seize a federal building. The government stands down carefully. But a 12-year-old with a toy gun?
Vanity Fair’s fawning Megyn Kelly profile makes you wish someone like Megyn Kelly would attack it
Scott Eric Kaufman
I watch Fox News for a living, and the only host who disappoints me is Kelly, because she clearly knows better
Exploiting the GOP’s self-destruction: As Trump implodes the party, only Bernie can capitalize on it for the left’s gain
Daniel Denvir
Trump's working-class base is likely susceptible to Sanders' brand of economic populism
Cops getting away with murder: It’s a warped legal system and law enforcement culture that lets them do it
Heather Digby Parton
Without a larger reform of police culture, the drug war and militarization, abuse by law enforcement will endure
My penis size obsession: All my life I’ve worried about measuring up
William Bradley
Some women make small d*ick jokes, but it seems to me this is an anxiety we men have created for ourselves
The New Wave of Islamophobia: Being Sikh or Muslim in the age of Donald Trump
Amardeep Singh
Politicians like Trump have emboldened those hostile toward minorities — we need real leaders to confront it
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