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Forty-year careers: 11 artists who are still great after four decades

Noah Berlatsky
The Stones might not have aged so well, but these artists are champions of the multi-decade career

America’s middle-class defeat: How Canada shamed the wealthiest nation on earth

Edward McClelland
Want to understand what's causing the decay of American dream? Take lessons from our friends to the north (UPDATED)

Shut up, Matthew Weiner! Why our TV masterminds should stop explaining their shows

Daniel D'Addario
From "Mad Men" to "Breaking Bad," show runners who talk too much are ruining our prestige dramas

Tori Amos: “I don’t know what you’re taking, but please can I have some, too?”

Stephen Deusner
"Menopause is a pain in the ass," says the iconic musician, whose new album is inspired by fears of middle age

How the Disney princess became “one of the guys”

Elizabeth Blackwell
Physically strong and emotionally shut off, these heroines teach our kids that there's only one way to be tough

Amazon is killing my sex life

Tricia Romano
The tech boom in Seattle is bringing in droves of successful, straight single guys -- all of them insufferable

4 myths about sex and women that prop up the new misogyny

Amanda Marcotte
Sorry, would-be pickup artists. There is no such thing as a "friend zone"

Sleazy, bloody and surprisingly smart: In defense of true crime

Laura Miller
This stigmatized genre has much to teach us about the way crime and justice really work

Things are about to go from bad to worse in Oklahoma: Governor signs off on Texas-style abortion restrictions

Katie McDonough
An admitting privilege requirement threatens to leave one clinic to serve 3.8 million people

No surprise here! Google’s workforce is mostly white and male

Sarah Gray
And its excuse for why is pretty darn lame

NRA finally meets its match: Why Richard Martinez should have them shaking

Katie McDonough
NRA's trick is to silence critics by claiming politics disrespects victims. But Richard Martinez can't be silenced

Gwyneth Paltrow: Tone-deaf, even about trolls

Mary Elizabeth Williams
She manages to be an unsympathetic figure even when speaking out on online toxicity

Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege

Joan Walsh
The killer’s Asian heritage matters. So does his ugly class entitlement. Misogyny crosses lines of race and culture

Why so many Christians still believe in demons and Satan

Adam Lee
Harvard's black mass controversy is far from an anomaly, and reveals how unreformed the Catholic Church remains

A “tragic family story”: Inside the Koch brothers’ past — and uncertain future

Elias Isquith
The libertarian billionaires are more complicated than you think, the author of a new family biography tells Salon

Laverne Cox: “There’s not just one trans story. There’s not just one trans experience”

Katie McDonough
The activist and "Orange is the New Black" star tells Time magazine about shifting norms and setting the agenda

Your fraternity email chain will come back to haunt you

Prachi Gupta
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's note to his frat bros joins the ranks of the worst Greek-life emails to ever go public

Social conservatives’ dire moment: Why they’re slowly losing America

Heather Digby Parton
There's a very hopeful trend -- but justice also entails economic issues. And here's where things get complicated

Here’s why it matters when a human rights crusader builds her advocacy on lies

Anne Elizabeth Moore
Newsweek's cover story on Somaly Mam shows us how harmful sex-trafficking journalism can be for women

Elliot Rodger and America’s ongoing masculinity crisis

Lisa Hickey
A comprehensive breakdown of the 70 mass shootings over the past 32 years -- and what they have in common

Wingnuts’ war against Michelle Obama: The real school lunch battle

Jim Newell
The first lady is fighting to save her school nutrition program. Along come the lunatics! Here's why

Arthur Chu nerdsplains entitlement: Stop trying to “win” girls

Prachi Gupta
Elliot Rodger was a misogynist who felt women owed him sex -- a problem that also exists in nerd culture

Literary icon Maya Angelou dead at 86

Prachi Gupta
The civil rights activist, poet and novelist will be remembered as a pioneer

Elliot Rodger and the NRA myth: How the gun lobby scapegoats mental illness

Christian Exoo, Calvin F. Exoo
After a tragedy, gun companies want us discussing anything but guns. Here's how both parties, and the media, comply
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