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How a six-month separation saved our marriage
Mary T. McCarthy
I dated a few guys, slept with one woman — and found my way back to the man I married more than two decades ago
“Academia is the Titanic”: Mark Bauerlein on teaching in the morally-bankrupt grind of the new American university
Scott Eric Kaufman
Controversial professor discusses NYTimes essay "What's the Point of a Professor?," the adjunct crisis and more
Remembering Letterman’s famous “lost” Bill Hicks stand-up set
Anna Silman
It's a major -- albeit little-known -- piece of talk show history
I’m Christian and happy that atheism is on the rise: America’s right-wing theocracy needs to chill
Mary Elizabeth Williams
There are fewer Christians in America than ever before -- and that's got to be good for the country
Our deranged, amoral football obsession is killing us: Brain damage, accused rapists, convicted murders — now Tom Brady and the “integrity of the game”
Steve Almond
Integrity? Of a game that looks the other way as athletes maim themselves, we cheer, and corporations mint cash?
The GOP’s Scientology strategy: How Charles Murray’s perverse anti-government agenda has won over the American right
Heather Digby Parton
The man most famous for the deeply racist "The Bell Curve" has found a solution to Big Government: Sue it to death
The hookup generation got outdone by the boomers: Why do millennials have fewer sex partners than their parents?
Tracy Clark-Flory
Turns out the free-love generation didn't exactly pave the way for the rest of us — what a disappointment!
“Mad Men” failed its black women — and squandered those opportunities to tell a richer story
Alex Madison
Alternately invisible or convenient, "Mad Men" has steadfastly denied its black characters their own internal lives
Is “Jane the Virgin” going to stay a virgin forever?
Sonia Saraiya
The genre-bending CW show is one of the best debuts of the season — with one lingering question
How Republicans have made a science out of white working-class resentment
Heather Digby Parton
Right-wingers love to denounce the left's reliance on "identity politics." It's about time they look in the mirror
“Game of Thrones” politics: The perils of cultural assimilation during war
Steven Attewell
Jon Snow and Daenerys try to maintain their identities while adopting other cultures into their folds - UPDATED
Glenn Beck’s paranoid history lesson: Why his theories about Iran & anti-Semitism are competely wrong
Matthew Pulver
Beck's been on the warpath lately, linking the Iranian regime to Nazi Germany. Why he's wrong — and why it matters
America’s dangerous “Exodus” fantasy: What’s lost in the Israel-Palestine debate
Sandy Tolan
Our government's unbending allegiance to Israel has blinded us to the horrors of its military occupation in Gaza
We are all just rats in a cage: How the 1 percent profits from your misery
William Davies
If we want to live in a way that is psychologically happy, we need to rethink the very nature of our economy
We’re all trolls now, for better and for worse: How the Internet lost its prankster lulz and found its outrage
Laura Miller
A scholar of online creeps and pranksters explains 4Chan history and the surprising ways they've influenced us all
Viral rewind: “Everyone out there in the world has seen my penis already”
Colin Gorenstein
Five years ago today, the world was introduced to the grown-up "Nevermind" baby
White America’s half century of shame: How the media’s Baltimore racism reveals a shocking lack of progress
Chauncey DeVega
The dog-whistle racism of Fox News is one of the more powerful reminders of how little has changed in the U.S.
The surprising high-art theory behind Kim Kardashian’s “Selfish”
Daphne Muller
The reality show queen's new book shows how she turned the Internet into her own Salon des Refusés
How impressed should we be with celebrities like Miley Cyrus who risk nothing by coming out?
David Ferguson
Miley Cyrus and Bruce Jenner will only see their fortunes improve, but what about LGBT people who aren't as lucky?
Being an angry white dude is an identity, too: How dog whistles & identity politics define the GOP
Katie McDonough
Political navel gazing about the GOP's "embrace" of identity politics misses the ways the party trades on whiteness
“Mad Men” spoilers, conspiracy theories, and blatant fan service denied: Matthew Weiner will keep teasing us to the bittersweet end
Anna Silman
Weiner's "finale clip" gag on Conan last night is the latest in a long line of the his stand-offs with hungry fans
Mike Huckabee is a raging hypocrite: Inside the religious right’s incoherent faux-morality
Sean Illing
As a glut of social conservatives announce 2016 campaigns, it's worth examining their ludicrous ideology in detail
Kristen Stewart slams women who have plastic surgery: They “are losing their minds”
Jenny Kutner
The star expresses a healthy dose of confidence about her appearance -- but does she have to slam other women?
Homophobia meets populism: Is there an upside to Huckabee’s “backside” politics?
Joan Walsh
If the right-wing populist is as tough on Jeb Bush as he is on women and Big Gay, he could shake up the GOP race
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