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“Princeton Mom” gets schooled at her alma mater
Sara Eckel
A recent panel reveals just how tenuous the "Marry Smart" author's grasp of marriage data really is
The politics of black women’s hair: Why it’s seen with skepticism — and a need to discipline
Brittney Cooper
A new military ban on cornrows and locs misses an entire culture -- and evokes my nightly rituals as a young girl
I’m a guy who loves romance novels — and Jennifer Weiner is right about reviews
Noah Berlatsky
Romance is the hardest genre to read, and not because of the stigma. It's because critics don't take it seriously
“Game of Thrones” glamorizes rape: That was not consent, and rape is not a narrative device
Roxane Gay
There was no consent in a brutal "Game of Thrones" scene. It's time for rape to stop being cable's narrative device
“Game of Thrones” recap: The clutches of depravity
Neil Drumming
In Westeros, it seems, no one is safe from nonconsensual sex
My generation, living on the road
Chelsea Batten
Traveling the country in my car, I'm struck by how easy it is to be a nomad, and how many others are doing the same
“Cubed”: How the American office worker wound up in a box
Laura Miller
From the Organization Man to open-plan design, a new history of the way the office has shaped the modern world
Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy
Alex Beam
How polygamy created a schism among early Mormons — and ultimately led to the murder of the religion's founder
The sad psychology of the spoiler
Dustin Rowles
People aren't consciously trying to be jerks. So why can't they control themselves from talking about King Joffrey?
Straight into the Fox News buzzsaw: Why elite, billionaire liberalism always backfires
Thomas Frank
Liberal righteousness is a road to nowhere. Bloomberg and the Koch brothers have same contempt for working people
“You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus
Michael Schulson
Reza Aslan on why he loves being on Glenn Beck's "chalkboard of crazy," and why Jesus would raise the minimum wage
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the dangerous anti-Islamic logic of the war on terror
Eric Levitz
Ayaan Hirsi Ali lost an honorary degree from Brandeis for articulating the same twisted thinking as Dick Cheney
Hitler, Darwin and the Holocaust: How the Nazis distorted the theory of evolution
Dan McMillan
The evolution theorist couldn't have known that people like Hitler would exploit his ideas in such horrifying ways
“Transcendence” and Hollywood’s bizarre techno-idiocy
Andrew O'Hehir
Johnny Depp makes a mean and stupid God in yet another baffling and stupid techno-thriller. What's going on?
Gen X to Gen Y: We had the best music
Eve Epstein
For Generation Y, music is just what you listen to. For Xers, it defines who we are
Generation Y to the world: Sorry about John Mayer
Leonora Epstein
OK, we were raised on uncool music (Barenaked Ladies, Britney, Smash Mouth). But then technology changed everything
The Bay is burning! Google Glass, techno-rage and the battle for San Francisco’s soul
Andrew Leonard
The advent of Google Glass has started an incendiary new chapter in tech's culture wars. Here's what's at stake
“The Americans” recap: Defenses go down
Elliott Holt
Philip buys a new Chevrolet, Elizabeth breaks down, and they are more vulnerable than ever
“A self-fulfilling conflict of interest”: Charter schools, testing mania, and Arne Duncan
Josh Eidelson
Rep. Raul Grijalva sounds off to Salon on starved public schools and White House's "market-based philosophy"
Is reading antisocial?
Laura Miller
Another attempt to socially network books has bitten the dust. Maybe readers just want to be alone
O’Reilly’s racial fear-mongering: How a dangerous, tired shtick got worse
Joan Walsh
He hectors a basketball coach about the horrors of players raised on “hip-hop stuff.” The coach sets him straight
Susana Martinez’s administration sounds familiar
Alex Pareene
Vindictiveness, politicization of state business and undue influence of operatives aren't unique to New Mexico
Glenn Beck: “I feel like I’m wasting my life”
Elias Isquith
The right-wing media mogul wants to make movies, says, "I hate politics"
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