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The new battle of Los Angeles: Stop trying to make “the next Brooklyn” happen
Scott Timberg
Yes, we know Moby moved here from New York. But the clueless, overeager attitude about L.A. needs to stop
Time to panic: Big data says you may already have ruined your kid’s life
Scott Timberg
A New York Times feature about the best and worst places to grow up offers some head-spinning conclusions
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is dangerous: Why we must reject her hateful worldview
Rula Jebreal
To endorse Hirsi Ali—as pundits everywhere from Fox News to network news have—insults and mocks a billion Muslims
Rodney King’s shadow hangs over Baltimore: What the history of the L.A. riots can tell us
Heather Digby Parton
It's a sad testament to America that the 23 years since the L.A. riots have seen so little change. What comes next?
15 feminist Amy Schumer sketches that will make you stand up and cheer
Anna Silman
From "Last F**kable Day" to "Realistic Military Video Game," Schumer has nailed it time and time again
The free market is destroying my school
Rufus F.
As a janitor, my job is in jeopardy. Sadly, so is the education of thousands of students who depend on us
“We need to talk about this as terrorism”: The war against abortion providers
Jenny Kutner
Abortion providers across the country are intimidated and abused -- and blue states are no better than red
Woody Allen’s romanticized rain (and Hemingway, and Toni Morrison and James Joyce)
Cynthia Barnett
Woody knows it, and so did Ernest Hemingway: Rain is one of literature’s great workhorses. Here's why
Diet fads are destroying us: Paleo, gluten-free and the lies we tell ourselves
Michael Schulson
The author of "The Gluten Lie" on our fruitless search for clean living, and why we're so quick to scoff at science
The beautiful mind of Oliver Sacks: How his knack for storytelling helped unlock the mysteries of the brain
Laura Miller
The author-neurologist's new book shows how he became the perfect voice for a revolution in neuroscience
Baltimore, the burden of history and the uses of “violence”: A week of fear and hope
Andrew O'Hehir
Beneath media hysteria and white panic, the real story of Baltimore is about political empowerment and new hope
America is back to lynching: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the noxious legacy of white supremacy
Ericka Schiche
The tendency to dehumanize black men and make spectacles of their deaths is a disgraceful ongoing phenomenon
The GOP’s destructive Vietnam mythology: How the right’s self-glorifying delusions led to decades of avoidable war
Peter Birkenhead
In 1980, Reagan turned the Vietnam disaster into a faux-patriotic rallying cry. We've paid the price ever since
David Brooks’ Baltimore column might be his dumbest of the year (We didn’t think it was possible, either)
Aaron Barlow
He's like the op-ed page's version of a monocle trend story now, only there for hate reads and clicks
“Hollywood is gross”: Why did Mae Whitman lose her part in the “Independence Day” sequel?
Anna Silman
The "Arrested Development" actress -- and fan favorite -- is being replaced by up-and-comer Maika Monroe
Fox News blames Baltimore for America’s sins: What Hannity & O’Reilly ignore about the roots of the Freddie Gray tragedy
Conor Lynch
Sean Hannity & Bill O'Reilly blame unrest on liberals and black communities. But, in truth, America is to blame
“Reality”: A mind-melting journey into the subconscious of ’70s cinema
Andrew O'Hehir
A movie within a movie, inside a dream -- and inside a hog -- Quentin Dupieux's "Reality" is a delirious head trip
White America’s racial amnesia: The sobering truth about our country’s “race riots”
Chauncey DeVega
White pogroms against blacks are a fixture of American history. Someone please inform our major news networks
The real story behind Shinzo Abe’s visit: China, TPP and what the media won’t tell you about this state visit
Patrick L. Smith
We witness reordination of a relationship between the U.S. and Japan that should have died a bad death decades ago
You’re still nothing until you’re a mom: Why does pop culture hate the child-free?
Michele Filgate
Child-free adults are everywhere, but movies like "While We're Young" still make babies a condition of growing up
Rush Limbaugh furious that Bud Light dropped offensive slogan — claims “rape culture” is a “concoction of the Left”
Scott Eric Kaufman
Only politically motivated people hear "the perfect beer for removing 'no' from your vocabulary" and think "rape"
Egypt gets a revolution, Baltimore a riot: Why hasn’t radical empathy started at home?
Kirsten Clodfelter
You don't have to condone violence to understand the overwhelming anger and frustration from which it is born
Vietnam’s most haunting lesson: Why the “War on Terror” will continue to fail after the troops come home
Christian Appy
Forty years to the day after the Vietnam War, America is still making the same mistakes. Let the revisionism begin
I was one of the last Americans to leave Saigon: Dick Hughes’ Vietnam oral history
Christian Appy
"The bottom line is that none of us belonged there. Not Westmoreland, not Bill Colby, not Ellsworth Bunker, not me"
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