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We’re more than confirmation numbers: What I learned selling books to strangers
Annie Hartnett
I forswore Amazon and took a job at a local bookstore to make rent; it became something much more than a paycheck
Pathetic, clingy, desperate for approval: Why does the Disney Channel hate moms?
Kim Kankiewicz
Unlike Disney movie mothers, Disney Channel moms get to live — as the butt of all jokes
No depression in heaven: The South, race, religion and FDR
Alison Collis Greene
The relationship between the churches and government in the South was never the same after the Great Depression
The right-wing beard revolution: Look out, hipsters, here come the counterculture Christians
Christopher Oldstone-Moore
The newly sprouted beards of American evangelicals are a social rather than a religious statement
We live in the golden age of awful news: Why every year seems so horrible in retrospect
Jack Mirkinson
As the end of 2015 approaches, we say goodbye to the worst year ever, and say hello to... the worst year ever?
Is Jesus’ birth worth celebrating? The dark subtext of the nativity scene
Valerie Tarico
This Christmas season, let's have an honest conversation about the message the Bible is sending to young women
This is the only advice you need to survive Christmas
Neil Strauss
The holidays are here, which means baggage — family baggage. Here is the best way to deal with it today
Religion’s “creative destruction”: Millennials, the new religious “nones,” are experimenting with new forms and rituals
Donald E. Miller
Could spiritual practices like feeding the homeless and fighting injustice take the place of traditional religion?
Merry XXX-mas: A brief history of Yuletide smut
Whitney Strub, Laura Helen Marks
As holidays go, Christmas has a rich tradition of raunch that can't be suppressed
So you bought your son a dollhouse for Christmas: How to talk to family members who just don’t get it
Rachel Kramer Bussel
The toy aisles are moving past the pink and blue divide, but that doesn't mean everyone's on board
Sorry conservatives: You lost the “war” on Christmas!
Edwin Lyngar
Bill O'Reilly and co. have been fighting a feverish war to defend the sanctity of... a pagan festival? (Yup)
“The thought of a white man in my chimney does not delight me”: Let’s stop lying to our kids about Santa
Kathleen Furin
Is Santa a harmless myth, or are we conditioning ourselves to lie to our children about much more than Christmas?
Holiday kitsch is killing us: I’ve had enough of these pageants of enforced feeling that leave us all empty
Laura Bogart
For a long time, I blamed myself for hating Christmas; now I see the pageant of enforced feeling for what it is
All you want for Christmas is an orgasm? You might be in luck
Carrie Weisman
Holidays mean more orgasms for some Americans: “Christmas is a great time for people to get a little more playful"
Donald Trump leads an insane white cult — and Pat Buchanan just explained how it works
Chauncey DeVega
GOP front-runner leads cult of personality centered around white alienation, racial resentment and authoritarianism
Inside Chicago’s epidemic of police lying: One man’s case shows why Windy City’s cops are rarely held accountable
Daniel Denvir
Why a black Chicago art teacher is suing 3 cops for falsely arresting him and illegally searching his parents' home
Leave Monica Lewinsky alone: Kurt Schlichter’s vile “humidor” dig isn’t just a personal attack — it’s an attack on all women
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Lewinsky stood up for the bullied this year — it’s time to stop using her name as a punchline
The year in viral videos: John Oliver, Larry David, mac-and-cheese douche and the very best the Internet had to offer
Sarah Burris
This list explains why we didn't get any work done this year
“The Revenant”: Leo’s amazing — but is this revenge western more than a live-action Roadrunner cartoon?
Andrew O'Hehir
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s "Birdman" follow-up is a dazzling, overwrought saga of carnage and chaos in 1820s America
Was your state among the 25 most charitable in 2014?
Kali Holloway
2014 was a banner year for Americans' donating to charity. Find out if your state is among the most generous
Now Ted Cruz is the enemy: Rupert Murdoch and WSJ open fire in new GOP civil war
Sean Illing
Wall Street Journal takes aim at Ted Cruz, but this could be exactly what the self-proclaimed "outsider" wants
There is no war on police: Ferguson, Chris Christie and the realities the right willfully ignores
Matthew Harwood
Violent crime against officers is at historic lows. That hasn't stopped conservatives from ginning up fear and hate
You know things are bad when Michael Moore agrees with the NRA: America is running on fear — and it’s killing us
Scott Timberg
Moore, Obama and Bernie Sanders all agree that economic insecurity is tearing America apart
Actually, the right invented the “War on Christmas”: The real history behind today’s phoniest persecution
Savannah Cox
Say "happy holidays" and Bill O'Reilly will howl. Christians, though, fought to suppress the holiday for centuries
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