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“I’ve found reading books very intellectually fulfilling”: Mark Zuckerberg’s book club proposal sounds like an alien wrote it
Erin Keane
Some tips to help the Facebook mogul get the most out of his "Year in Books"
Jeb Bush’s soft bigotry: Why his “conciliatory” words on gay marriage ring hollow
Luke Brinker
As a gay man, I find scant comfort in Bush's effort to play to both sides in the marriage equality debate
9 ways the Bible condones torture
Valerie Tarico
Of course Christian wingnuts are willing to excuse the CIA. They're simply taking their cues from the Good Book
“Huck Finn” is not about race: The real subtext of Twain’s masterpiece
Laura Miller
What if "Huckleberry Finn" actually arose from a Victorian panic about childhood?
I’m terrified that he’ll inherit my brokenness: Living through postpartum depression as a dad
Nathan Rabin
My first child is the greatest source of joy in my life. So why am I so deeply sad?
Celebrity cameo season: TV guest spots to get excited about in the new year
Anna Silman
From Seth Rogen on "Broad City" to Ana Gasteyer on "Girls," there's a lot to look forward to
2015’s pop culture-versaries: The films and albums celebrating milestones this year
Erin Keane
From Whitney Houston's debut to "Back to the Future," there are some major cultural anniversaries in 2015
A foursome opened up our relationship
Yoonj Kim
It started as just another fantasy. But trusting my boyfriend like this changed everything
Meet the man who predicted Fox News, the Internet, Stephen Colbert and reality TV
Scott Timberg
The most important media observer of our time died a decade ago -- but saw our superficial, silly side taking over
The destruction of creationism: How the search for the beginning of time sparked a scientific revolution
Martin J.S. Rudwick
When scholars used the Bible to pinpoint the moment of creation, they actually paved the way for a radical change
Richard Nixon’s favorite liberal: Secrets of the strangest political marriage
Stephen Hess
Nixon needed to reach across the aisle. Moynihan needed to reclaim a voice. Their partnership made history
Chain restaurants are killing us: Billionaire bankers, minimum-wage toilers and the nasty truth about fast-food nation
Thomas Frank
This is what we eat, this is where we work, this is what we do to our land: It's nasty and must be rethought
The secret history of beauty: How the Greeks invented Western civilization’s biggest idea
David Konstan
People think of beauty as universal to the human experience. But the truth is actually much more complicated
Looking for neo-Nazis? There’s an app for that
Angela Waters
German officials hope new technologies will help curb the rise of right-wing extremism across the country
We get Huck Finn all wrong: Race, Mark Twain, children and myths of an American classic
Andrew Levy
Our sense of comedy and seriousness in "Huck Finn" says more about America now than America in Mark Twain's time
The NYPD’s mini-rebellion, and the true face of American fascism
Andrew O'Hehir
The NYC cop crisis taps into a vein of authoritarian longing -- but the real risk of fascism may be harder to see
Over-testing our kids is not the answer — it’s the problem
Anya Kamenetz
In the era of No Child Left Behind and Common Core, we've forgotten about the learning and development that matter
The secret madness of Adolf Hitler
Peter Caddick-Adams
What a mysterious ailment during World War I reveals about the motivations of history's greatest monster
My obsession with a cold case
Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
Susie's murder was never solved, but a chance encounter in a graveyard led to my own personal version of "Serial"
Tim Burton: “There’s a fine line between good and bad” in movies
Anna Silman
The "Big Eyes" director on outsider art, casting Christoph Waltz, and his own creative evolution
Culture war in the deep blue sea: Science’s contentious quest to understand whales and dolphins
Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell
Are humans really the only animals who share a culture? Many scientists think not, and here's why
FDR outsmarts them all: Henry Ford, Joseph Kennedy, Charles Lindbergh and the American entrance into World War II
Nicholas Wapshott
Fascism overseas or a third term? As FDR pondered that, he also had to outwit a nasty isolationist movement at home
Fox News has nothing but fear: Here’s how we fight back against lies — and win
Paul Rosenberg
The right took Congress with scare tactics. To hold the White House in 2016, Democrats need an aggressive counter
William Deresiewicz: Chris Hughes “embodies—including the ‘entitled little shit’ part—a lot of what I’m saying”
Michael Schulson
"We've basically reduced what it means to be human to market terms," says brilliant critic of Ivy League/higher ed
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