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Stop using your dog or kid as your Facebook photo and make peace with your looks
Mary Elizabeth Williams
I started to hate seeing pictures of myself -- and decided to look harder
“Your Prince Charming will come!” and other dumb advice that married people give their single friends
Tracy Clark-Flory
Newly-engaged Lady Gaga reached out to Taylor Swift with the kind of smug platitude that single women hate
“It’s the Blackness that scares everybody”: Why white people favor “African-Americans”
Brittney Cooper
The word "Black" can be disruptive, disarming and political. Here's what it really means when I choose to use it
Orgasms for world peace? A charity porn site can’t give its money away
Tracy Clark-Flory
Nonprofits are skittish about accepting donations from a porn site that raises money for good causes
Rayna Jaymes, feminist icon: How TV’s progressive “Nashville” bucks the music industry’s bro-country rules
Amy McCarthy
With domestic violence and abortion subplots, the third season of "Nashville" has been its fiercest yet
The left’s historic power win: How the long-fought “net neutrality” triumph transformed history
Matt Stoller
The quest to win a fair Internet altered elections and protected prized freedoms. Here's how we beat big business
TV’s cruelest night: “The Bachelor” enjoys the ruthless public shaming of its “Women Tell All” event a little too much
Anna Silman
The sordid spectacle proves that pain, not romance, is the "Bachelor"'s true end-game
10 ways America can stop terrorizing its citizens (and the rest of the world)
Tom Engelhardt
We refuse to think of ourselves as barbaric, and yet our War on Terror is exactly that. It's time we put it to rest
One nation without God: Why a post-religious America is upon us
Lynn Stuart Parramore
The yoke of fundamentalism is loosening. New data reveal Americans are turning away from religion in record numbers
Scott Walker’s latest headache: How he irked the religious right — and what it says about his bumbling campaign
Luke Brinker
He was once touted as a uniter of the GOP's factions, but Walker is managing to peeve them all
My libertarian vacation nightmare: How Ayn Rand, Ron Paul & their groupies were all debunked
Edwin Lyngar
My family and I traveled last month to a Honduras city known for its libertarian ideals. Here's what happened next
Dating with Asperger’s: A new documentary follows a lonely Aspie’s search for love
Matthew Rozsa, Liskula Cohen
Asperger's syndrome can make dating a challenge, but loneliness proves more a debilitating hurdle in this new film
Todd Akin’s comeback bid is over before it even started
Luke Brinker
Days after floating another Senate run, incendiary conservative says it's a no-go
What are Wal-Mart & eBay hiding? Shareholders demand transparency about the gender pay gap
Katie McDonough
Shareholders want to force the mega-retailers to disclose pay disparities. It'll be an uphill battle
You would’ve hated your heroes: Why history’s great people seem so morally deficient
Dan Falk
Winston Churchill was racist. Albert Einstein was a chauvinist. And that's not even the half of it!
My adventure in -264°F hell
Joanna Rothkopf
Cryotherapy has been hailed as a miracle treatment. But does it really live up to the hype? I decided to find out
Meet America’s first drug dealer: Arnold Rothstein’s wild, real-life 1920s “Sopranos” story
Johann Hari
The modern drug war started with Arnold Rothstein, a criminal master so feared he managed to rig the World Series
Disco saved me from the Bible Belt
ROBERT BURKE WARREN
In Georgia, disco bashing was a convenient cover for racism and homophobia. I found escape in its infectious beat
Is there any case for religion? Christianity, Islam, atheism and my search for balance and truth
Michael Ruse
What's good about religion? Does it lead to violence? Are atheists right? Looking to history for real answers
John Travolta, Joe Biden and why men touch women’s bodies without asking
Nico Lang
Viral videos of the vice president and "Pulp Fiction" star belie our troubling tolerance for sexual harrasment
“It would be easy to be pessimistic, but pessimism has never changed the world”: Life lessons from a global poverty hero
Megan Mayhew Bergman
"My work is not about busting through Westernized glass ceilings; it’s about survival," says BOMA's Kathleen Colson
Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and the movement’s sad “rebellion”
David Masciotra
Libertarians fancy themselves radicals, and yet their rallying cry can be reduced to "You're not the boss of me!"
It’s worse than Scott Walker and Ted Cruz: Secrets of conservatives’ decades-long war on truth
Heather Cox Richardson
The right knows that facts and reason have a liberal bent. That's why their decades-long strategy is to lie
Down with beard culture: An argument for old-fashioned shaving
MB Goodrich
Using a straight razor was a lesson in attention, care and self-knowledge. Of course, blood also ran down my face
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