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Cate Blanchett on Hollywood sexism: Female audiences don’t stop consuming culture “once they stop menstruating”

Jenny Kutner
The star says people shouldn't be surprised at the lack of gender equality -- what industry is equal?

20 disgustingly misogynist quotes from religious leaders

Valerie Tarico
Christian conservatives have a storied history of hating women, from St. Augustine to Pat Robertson,

You can’t ban douchebaggery: Kill the frats, sure, but you can’t stop entitled white bros

Katie McDonough
Taking on toxic frat culture means addressing white supremacy, institutional misogyny and inequality, too

Let’s major in Girls Gone Wild: How “Hot Sexy Coeds” became porn scholars

Tracy Clark-Flory
A new book takes a scholarly look at smut, which is increasingly being taken seriously as an academic subject

Black history bulldozed for another Starbucks: Against the new Baltimore

D. Watkins
Gentrification is turning my hometown into an alien place. As the city is remade, do I even belong here anymore?

You missed TV’s best show: The Comedy Central brilliance that isn’t Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show”

Sonia Saraiya
Nick Kroll's too-real parodies of awful reality TV blurred the line between brilliant and awful, and I loved it

10 ways Christian heaven is more like hell

Valerie Tarico
A close reading of the New Testament reveals Biblical paradise isn't all pearly gates and streets of gold

Police find no evidence of gang rape — or rape culture — after UVA investigation

Jenny Kutner
Charlottesville police chief says detectives cannot corroborate Jackie's gang rape claims in Rolling Stone

Is college now just a course in “self-infantilization”?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A Times piece on "safe spaces" and "scary ideas" asks what kind of thinkers we're turning out

“Being accused of rape is not an ideal trait in a quarterback”: Jameis Winston NFL draft apologia begins

Jenny Kutner
SB Nation gives a concise example of rape culture in its 2015 mock NFL draft

Is James Corden ready for (Late) Late Night?

Anna Silman
From swift fame to sudden backlash, a look at how the British comedy icon got to where he is today

“Girls”: Leaning in and moving on, finally

Daniel Howell
Season 4 ends, and Hannah's start-and-stall approach to maturation might finally be gaining some momentum

Listen up, frat boys: You are not Jon Stewart

Sophia A. McClennen
Just kidding! It's the defense of every idiot frat dude and insane right-wing pundit. Trouble is, you're not funny

5 interesting findings about dating around the world

Allegra Kirkland
What are the best and worst cities for love? What accent do we find most attractive? A new study has the answers

The orgy prude: How I finally admitted I don’t like meaningless, porn-star sex

Tracy Chabala
When I was drinking, I made myself so sexually available. Now I can finally admit I want something different

A writer walks into a bank: Facing the financial fallout from a life dedicated to art

Rachel Basch
The pain of admitting to a mortgage officer "I write realistic fiction" for a living is almost too much to bear

Kim Gordon on life after Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore: “It was surprising how many people cared about the band or us”

Sara Scribner
Sonic Youth star corrects the record: Why she doesn't see herself as a musician, a rock star or a New Yorker

5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy

Tom Engelhardt
One-percent elections. Congressional gridlock. An increasingly demobilized public. Our democracy is on life support

The secret to saving the world: How ordinary people actually can prevent global disaster

Lindsay Abrams
"Sometimes the most powerful changes are well within the reach of ordinary citizens," says Paul Steinberg

Victorian romance: The GOP’s “Oliver Twist” budget and the comeback of class warfare

Andrew O'Hehir
Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz call for more prisons and less gruel in Big Capital's Dickensian war against the poor

“Not living a life that’s full of regrets”: Legendary psychotherapist Irvin Yalom on the challenges of living in fear

Joanna Rothkopf
Yalom's newest book, "Creatures of a Day" chronicles his years as a therapist

Pope Francis takes down the right: “I don’t think the bishops are going to come flocking around (Santorum) any more”

Michael Schulson
Catholic scholar Garry Wills talks contraception, religious right and his new book on pope and the church's future

Hipsters for charter schools: The big lie “Togetherness” tells about race and education

Joshua Leibner
Rich whites run charter industry and funnel them cash. On HBO, it's a post-racial bandwagon gutting public schools

Mellencamp “doesn’t play to his base”: Why this lefty populist is at home among conservatives

David Masciotra
Leftist thinker John Mellencamp is a rare independent voice in public life -- challenging himself and his audience
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