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Tickle gizzard and the pleasure pivot: A history of sex slang and the coolest ancient dirty words
Jonathon Green
The sixpenny suburb sinnet. A lassie's by-job: 15th and 16th century sexual slang is vulgar, creative and very fun
The climate movement is heating up faster than the planet
Todd Gitlin
Sweeping action like the People's Climate March suggests politicians can no longer afford to ignore global warming
Why the GOP hates U.S. history: Inconvenient truths that freak out American conservatives
Sean McElwee
The right is losing its mind over new testing standards that aren't "patriotic" enough. Time for a history lesson!
I beat my fear of HIV: How a miracle drug changed my life as a gay man
Gabriel Arana
I've always feared contracting the virus — but now a promising medical advance is raising different concerns
Genius grant or TED talk: Does a MacArthur grant make a genius smarter?
Thomas Frank
It's genius season, and once again the usual suspects line up for accolades, fated to be prize magnets forever
Cornel West: “The state of Black America in the age of Obama has been one of desperation, confusion and capitulation”
Cornel West
The leading scholar indicts the president -- and Black leadership and the media for not calling out his failures
My doomed mission to make her happy
Bill Smoot
A year into our marriage, her romantic interest in me waned. But I wanted to believe we could still make it work
Don’t be duped by “Bolaño”: The dangers of the unauthorized biography
Lisa Locascio
This book offers so much speculation posing as fact that it starts to seem like something darker: a revenge project
Torture is the new normal in Tibet
James Tapper
A 64-year-old woman is just the latest Tibetan to be brutalized at the hands of Chinese authorities
Ebola, the “heart of darkness” and the epidemic of fear
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a dangerous virus and Africa is suffering. But the American media-political panic is ugly and narcissistic
Secrets of the “Star Wars” drafts: Inside George Lucas’ amazing — and very different — early scripts
Chris Taylor
Luke might have been a woman. Drawings that made Lucas' vision real. Hidden stories from "Star Wars" history
America’s warped new reality: Botched intel, inept Secret Service, deadly bombs
Robert Hennelly
It's time for our intelligence and security apparatus to stop and reflect. What it's doing now just isn't working
“The Daily Show” destroys Fox News’ non-solution to unwanted catcalling
Sarah Gray
So many fun alternatives!
Chris Matthews vs. Obama: How the president lost one of his top supporters
Heather Digby Parton
Pundit who famously swooned the president now calls him socially "lazy" -- and says he listens to Michelle too much
Heinrich Himmler, family man: Why “The Decent One” is the most haunting documentary I’ve ever seen
Andrew O'Hehir
A devastating doc drawn from a trove of private papers reveals the Nazi war criminal as husband and dad
Bring back the “bleep”: How prestige television killed my favorite TV trope
James Orbesen
In our age of TV designed for maximum shock value, I miss the coy, withholding little "bleep"
America’s sex abuse surprise: Why our search for “monsters” is blinding us
Katie McDonough
A nation guarding only against "evil" men is missing the ghastly -- ordinary -- face of sexual violence. Here's how
Our Gchats, ourselves: Why chat excerpts make good literature
Christy O'Shoney
In her new memoir, Lena Dunham makes the chat log into art. So I dug into my own archives to see what I'd learn
North Dakota high school eliminates dangerous threat to male students: Yoga pants
Jenny Kutner
Sexist dress codes don't just sexualize girls. They tell boys it's okay to be out of control -- and they need to go
College is ripping you off: Students are cash cows, and schools the predators
Thomas Frank
Higher ed is sold as the key to an affluent life. It's really a big business designed to leave you buried in debt
The “pre-cation” is a trap!
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A new hiring trend--two paid weeks off before you even start--shows how starved we are for time off
“You think we’re this dumb?”: Inside the sick, cynical mind of Mitch McConnell
Elias Isquith
The man who may be our next Senate majority leader is everything wrong with Washington, Alec MacGillis tells Salon
8 disturbing ways the Kochs have amassed their fortune
Terrell Jermaine Starr
The billionaire industrialists are living proof that oligarchs aren't exclusive to developing nations
“Men, Women & Children”: Hollywood’s Internet lameness reaches new lows
Andrew O'Hehir
People use the Internet for sex! Revelations abound in Jason Reitman's "Crash"-like screed "Men, Women & Children"
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