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Best moments of the Oscar front-runners: Love gone wrong in “American Hustle”

Andrew O'Hehir
A second look at this year's tight Oscar race: First up, "American Hustle" as a tale of manly love betrayed

Don’t remove your ovaries just yet

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Headlines urge surgery for women with a cancer gene -- what happened to choice?

Anne Hathaway’s long, quiet year, and how she should come back at the Oscars

Daniel D'Addario
Hollywood's most polarizing star admits she's taken time away from her haters. She shouldn't apologize anymore

“Whore phobia” and Ashton Kutcher’s creepy PSA: The problem with banning prostitution

Josh Eidelson
Author Melissa Gira Grant on how prohibition endangers sex workers. And how pop culture misunderstands them

We’re being screwed by Spotify! David Byrne, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills and Cake’s John McCrea on the fight for artists’ rights

Scott Timberg
"We need to have a sustainable system for people who create culture," says John McCrea, announcing a new coalition

Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee denounces anti-LGBTQ bill

Katie McDonough
Gov. Jan Brewer also weighs in, says she will "do the right thing" for Arizona

White America’s “waiver mania”: The right’s plot to minimize its culture war defeat

Brian Beutler
Rather than deny America's cultural shifts, conservatives have a new strategy: exemption from laws that offend them

Here is the full trailer for HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Prachi Gupta
Mike Judge's satire

Piers Morgan, CNN’s identity crisis, and how the network can rebuild

Daniel D'Addario
The CNN host is leaving soon -- why did it all go so wrong?

On Michael Dunn, and raising black sons: Jordan Davis’ mother talks to Salon

Josh Eidelson
"I used to say to him...you’re just going to have to turn the other cheek...Because people nowadays will shoot you"

The trouble with virginity: What America’s sexual language leaves out

Melissa T. Goldman
Our limited concept of "losing your virginity" ignores the importance of consent

Why I biked through the polar vortex (no, I’m not crazy)

Sarah Tory
If you live in a city with a strong bike culture, you're undeterred by the elements -- even the cold and the snow

When Republicans hated the troops

Steven Casey
Conservative rhetoric about honoring our soldiers conceals their staggering disregard for the loss of life in Iraq

Paul Krugman won’t save us: We need a new conversation about inequality

Thomas Frank
Democrats are scared of class. But issues like inequality are why liberals exist, and talk can't be left to elites

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers

Simon Head
You might find your Prime membership morally indefensible after reading these stories about worker mistreatment

Wall Street’s millennial crisis: For young people, the spell has worn off

Peter Finocchiaro
Author Kevin Roose explains why fewer and fewer young people are succumbing to the allure of high finance

From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America

Jarret Ruminski
Modern-day creationist rhetoric has its roots in the Puritan desire to make America into a "City of God"

Reagan’s Christian revolt: How conservatives hijacked American religion

George M. Marsden
Once upon a time, America's religious communities were politically moderate. Then along came the evangelicals

Wingnuts’ most audacious lie yet: Quietly pretending their views are liberal!

Elias Isquith
Aware they've lost the debate, anti-gay bigots are doing the unthinkable: Reframing their stand as anti-oppression

America’s next Wal-Mart: The indie film industry

Beanie Barnes
Cheap labor and subsidies have created an unsustainable bubble. We need fewer indie films, not more

Generational warfare on the big screen: Raising millennials and fighting with Mom in “Osage County”

Matthew Brandon Wolfson
"August: Osage County" is one of the best depictions yet of the broken relationship between old and young in the US

GOP’s war on “hookup culture”: Tennessee Republicans enraged by college Sex Week

Josh Eidelson
Local wingnuts are "fed up with the perversion" of a college event. A student organizer tells us the real problem

How the Facebook economy is costing us big

Andrew Leonard
Tech companies are increasingly hooking consumers with the promise of free service. But everything comes at a price

Our figure-skating obsession: Why America loves watching women fall

Nico Lang
American media culture loves watching women torn apart, and figure skating is no exception
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