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Teenage boys just want to be loved
Jenny Kutner
A new study shows that adolescent boys aren't as sex-crazed as they're made out to be -- they just crave intimacy
Who cares what it looks like? Airbnb’s new logo is pure genius
Andrew Leonard
Airbnb says the "Belo" is about love and belonging. Everybody else is reminded of human genitalia. Win!
Mother arrested for letting daughter play in park
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A case of helicopter culture gone mad
No, daughters do not really cause divorce
Jenny Kutner
Couples with female children tend to separate at higher rates, but it might be because girls can handle it
“Word Crimes” is literally the greatest English lesson ever
Mary Elizabeth Williams
How Weird Al gave pedants the best gift of the summer
Florida police department rocked — again — by officers’ alleged Klan membership
Don Terry
Two Fruitland Park cops are out of a job after the Florida Police Department was tipped off by the FBI
The truth about the immigration “crisis”: Our drug policies and U.S.-backed tyrants created Central America’s culture of violence
Patrick L. Smith
If you want to really understand what's happening at the border, revisit the violence we visited upon the region
“Alive Inside”: Music may be the best medicine for dementia
Andrew O'Hehir
A heartbreaking new film explores the breakthrough that can help severely disabled seniors: It's called the iPod
Iggy Azalea’s post-racial mess: America’s oldest race tale, remixed
Brittney Cooper
As a white female rapper mistakes appropriation for artistry, black women remain pushed to the sidelines (UPDATED)
I’m sorry for coining the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”
Nathan Rabin
In 2007, I invented the term in a review. Then I watched in queasy disbelief as it seemed to take over pop culture
GOP’s pot stunt earns a White House veto threat: Another sign of Dems’ evolution on marijuana
Jim Newell
In a good sign for reformers, Obama has come out against the House GOP's ploy to block DC pot decriminalization
From Superman to the Green Turtle: How superhero comics are really assimilation fantasies
Noah Berlatsky
"The Shadow Hero" finally confronts comics' long history of dancing around its characters' ethnic identity
Women who post sexy photos to social media are seen as less competent
Jenny Kutner
A new study finds the virgin/whore dichotomy concentrated in a new place: Young women's profile pictures
Is J.K. Rowling the new George Lucas?
DOMINICK MAYER
A new "Harry Potter" story, like the Pottermore fansite before it, raises the question: How much is too much?
From wet T-shirts to oral sex contests: A brief history of sexploitative party games
Tracy Clark-Flory
A teen goes viral for servicing men in a bar — all for a free drink. But sadly, this isn't shocking at all
William Zabka: 30 years later, the “Karate Kid” cast is like a frat
Kevin Smokler
The actor who played Johnny Lawrence on "The Karate Kid," his recent TV cameos, the nickname Mr. Miyagi gave him
Why soccer will never come home to the U.S.
Ian Blair
Assessing soccer's future means re-evaluating the relationship between America and the American athlete
Dads: Don’t literally try to make your daughters princesses
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A Virginia father claims "the Kingdom of North Sudan"
“Don’t B.S. the public”: Former health secretary slams Pennsylvania’s failure to act on fracking complaints
Lindsay Abrams
"What are you so afraid that we're going to uncover?" the official asked industry leaders
“Bring it sad sick dudes”: Emily Gould isn’t sorry about anything
Laura Bennett
Gould on "Friendship," what it would take to lure her back to Gawker and why people can't stop writing about her
Teenagers are not “toddlers with hormones”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A spate of teen-bashing stories forget the adolescents can be amazing
Dear Internet: Stop your sighing! Email’s newest passive-aggressive word is everywhere
Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Sigh" -- as in "Can't tonight. SIGH" -- has become our most passive-aggressive buzzword
Tenure is not the problem: Debunking education reform myths — and providing a real path forward
Morgan Agnew
There are ways to fix public schools, but too many "reformers" are blinded by ideology. Let's listen to a teacher
Gunplay is all I know
D. Watkins
As as young black male in America, I'd rather be caught with a gun than without one
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