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Scott Walker’s “Sarah Palin” problem: What’s really behind his media hostility
Heather Digby Parton
"Gotcha" questions may have evolved since Palin's time -- but Walker's strategy for handling them is eerily similar
Orlando Patterson: Black youth have values consistent with mainstream America
Ian Blair
50 years after the Moynihan report, renowned Harvard sociologist talks Ferguson, respectability politics and Cosby
HBO’s political call to arms: “Citizenfour” has more in common with “Girls” than you’d think
Sonia Saraiya
The Academy Award-winning documentary about NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden premiered on HBO last night
Your HR department doesn’t give a damn: How corporate overseers exploit American workers
Cliff Weathers
Workers are now managed like any other form of resource, and things have only gotten worse since the recession
Just let them kiss already: Why are TV shows so weird about male relationships?
Sonia Saraiya
From "The Big Bang Theory" to "The Odd Couple" reboot, a mild undercurrent of gay panic follows on-screen bromance
Scott Walker’s media cowardice: Why the media needs to ask him more “gotcha” questions
Elias Isquith
Even some journalists think it's silly to ask Walker about his thoughts on the president. Here's why they're wrong
5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Geraldo doesn’t like how black people dress
Janet Allon
Geraldo Rivera takes things in a vaguely racist direction, while Donald Trump wonders why Jewish people like Obama
Oscars 2015: Nuggets of electric political theater, amid oceans of lame
Andrew O'Hehir
Neil Patrick Harris was a dud and the awards barely mattered -- but the Oscars display hints of a new purpose
Neil Patrick Harris plays it safe with his Oscars opening number
Anna Silman
He kicked things off with an #OscarsSoWhite joke before launching into a song and dance number
“Racism begins in our imagination:” How the overwhelming whiteness of “Boyhood” feeds dangerous Hollywood myths
Grisel Y. Acosta
In what imaginary Texas would Richard Linklater's characters not be surrounded by people of Mexican descent?
When they laughed at rape
Matthew Rozsa
It took a visit to a liberal college classroom to understand just how deeply embedded in our culture it truly is
We must offend religion more: Islam, Christianity and our tolerance for ancient myths, harmful ideas
Jeffrey Tayler
Our enduring deference to religion, despite its toxicity and phony explanations for the cosmos, lets it survive
The search for the perfect vagina: Why labiaplasty is suddenly booming
Kali Holloway
Internet pornography has forever changed the way we look at the female anatomy, and plastic surgeons are cashing in
Down and dirty fairy tales: How this rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm stories destroys our Prince Charming myths
Laura Miller
The translator of a newly discovered trove of 150-year-old tales on the gender-bending surprises found there
The last Ramone standing: “We were 90 percent fun and 10 percent pent-up animosity”
Marc Spitz
Marky Ramone on losing his bandmates, why he didn't punch Johnny in the mouth, and that scathing Morrissey review
Downfall of a simulated celebrity: Brian Williams, Max Headroom and the performance of credibility
Andrew O'Hehir
Forget the damn helicopter. The most manufactured news celebrity of our time briefly looked human, so he had to go
The GOP’s Giuliani disaster: Why Rudy’s vile nonsense is a big problem for Republicans
Elias Isquith
The ex-mayor has long been a demagogue. But for Republicans, his nasty comments may hint at a new political threat
Dirty, sister, daydream: I wanted Kim Gordon’s bad-assitude
Elissa Schappell
The Sonic Youth rocker took no BS, made the most amazing noise, was sexual but not for sale. I loved all of it
Bill O’Reilly’s masculinity problem: Why anchormen feel the need to be war heroes
Rhonda Garelick
Brian Williams and Bill O'Reilly have both seemingly exaggerated war stories. That's not a coincidence
Ben Carson’s sick torture rationale: Is this 2016’s most deluded contender?
Heather Digby Parton
"There is no such thing as a politically correct war," he says, writing soldiers a blank check for criminality
This is why they hate us: Fox News, drones, “American Sniper” and the gross face we show the world
Marcy Wheeler
The government thinks it can counter ISIS on Twitter. The real problem is how our actions breed disgust worldwide
“50 Shades” of Confederate grey: Why the Christian right is losing power over Southern morality
Edward L. Rubin
Evangelical authorities are calling for a boycott of the film, but Southern moviegoers haven't gotten the message
What color am I, mommy?
Jane Lazarre
One thing I've learned as a Jewish mother raising black sons in America: Whiteness is a dangerous construct
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