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Taylor Swift’s colonial nostalgia: Hollywood’s obsession with taming Africa’s wild landscape lives on
Matt Carotenuto
Thanks, Ms. Swift, for again proving that African stereotypes are safe atop the pinnacle of American pop culture
Donald Trump’s reign of brain-bragging terror: The GOP front-runner wants you to know that he’s “like, really smart”
Aaron Lecklider
The surging Trump touts his Ivy League pedigree and "genius" genes. Is the GOP losing its anti-intellectual edge?
Taylor Swift’s colonial fantasy: The dubious racial politics of “Wildest Dreams”
Nico Lang
The pop star's latest video is an homage to "Out of Africa." It's a bizarre choice on the heels of "Shake It Off"
Kanye’s unfiltered truth: All awards (even the VMAs) are political — and we need to stop pretending they’re not
Arthur Chu
West might say he's "not a politician, bro," but here's why Kanye 2020 might not be a bad idea at all
5 things you should know before biting into that marijuana munchie
Phillip Smith
Marijuana edibles are big business but they can be problematic. Here's why
Glenn Beck’s terrifying messiah complex: What his giant “All Lives Matter” rally says about modern conservatives
Heather Digby Parton
The conservative mega-star drew 20,000 people to Alabama to re-walk the iconic civil rights march last weekend
Remembering Wes Craven: Freddie Krueger’s creator conjured a demon beneath Reagan’s America — and then got trapped in the basement with him
Andrew O'Hehir
The horror-movie maestro who remade the horror movie and reshaped pop culture died Sunday at 76
The insipid hell of the VMAs: Why pop culture’s obsession with “Big Moments” is cynical, stupid & deeply boring
Jack Mirkinson
What are we doing still watching this thing?
Kanye’s vulnerable, contradictory VMA speech is already a classic Generation X TV moment
Scott Timberg
He announced he's running for president in 2020—and that's not even the most exciting part of last night's speech
Chrissie Hynde is wrong: Blaming rape victims for their own assault isn’t “just common sense”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The rock icon wonders if she's being "controversial," but blaming victims is hardly new
Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and the un-“PC”: What the rise of “politically incorrect” candidates says about conservatism
Simon Maloy
Conservatives struggle to explain how Trump's enduring popularity doesn't make their movement look really bad
America’s true P.C. villains: The maddening “censorship” doublespeak of right-wing culture warriors
Conor Lynch
Conservatives have been quick to label liberals as the "thought police" of late — an claim of staggering hypocrisy
Getting the story meant risking sexual assault — I did it anyway
Tara Isabella Burton
It was foolhardy of me to get into a stranger's car, knowing what would happen. So why did I go?
Transformed by loss: Batman and the real-life heroic journey that inspired his creation
Jim Rendon
Our culture's post-traumatic growth stories, from Batman to Spider-Man, are grounded in real people's lives
The secret history of “Y’all”: The murky origins of a legendary Southern slang word
Cameron Hunt McNabb
The phrase "y'all" might not simply be the shortened form of "you all" — but something far more complex
I lost my faith — and found myself
Sean Murphy
When my mother surrendered to cancer, I became unmoored. Religion couldn't save me from my grief, but I could
A burka in a Christian town: How Fox News and right-wing media turned a lesson in tolerance into an excuse for hate
Linda K. Wertheimer
A teacher's "dress-up" exercise divided a Texas town. Then Fox News and WorldNetDaily arrived to make it worse
“There is no god — now what?”: How to find meaning in an atheist world
Valerie Tarico
Filmmaker and photographer Chris Johnson on the dangers of religion and his new documentary, “A Better Life”
Billionaire CEOs come to Jesus: “We are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape”
Jim Hightower
Peter Georgescu, Ken Langone and other industry titans are slowly realizing income inequality is bad for business
Amber Tamblyn: “I get rejected for a living”
Rachel Matlow
The former child star talks Brittany Murphy, her quarter-life crisis and the sacrifices made for poetic legitimacy
I left both Christianity and Islam behind: “It was the problem of evil and innocent suffering that truly led me out of religion”
Jeffry R. Halverson
Raised a Lutheran, I converted to Islam at 19, not long before 9/11. But that's not what ended my life as a Muslim
“Stale white bitches tried to take us down”: Luther Campbell on 2 Live Crew, race, hip-hop and the conservative, Southern ’80s
Luther Campbell
"The day some white teenager got caught with a 2 Live Crew album, that’s what started the whole sh*tstorm"
Has Lessig lost it? The bizarre marriage of Donald and Larry
Steven Rosenfeld
The election reform activist calls Trump's campaign a "gift" to the American people. Sadly, he's not kidding
The dangerous paradox of neoliberal environmentalism: Why global warming can’t be solved by the free market”
Paul Rosenberg
Establishment Dems are trying to take climate action while still satisfying corporate interests. That won't work
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