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What John Lennon taught me about justice
K.M. Cholewa
Lennon knew you couldn't fix our broken system from within. Now, his radical lesson feels more true than ever
In defense of Upworthy: Why viral uplift might actually be good for us
Daniel D'Addario
Critics love to hate Upworthy's headlines, but is directing lots of people to stories about social justice so bad?
BP executive says she was fired for wearing “ethnic clothing and ethnic hairstyles”
Katie McDonough
Melphine Evans, a black female executive at BP, says she was told her clothing made others "uncomfortable"
Christian conservatives have perfected playing the victim card
Amanda Marcotte
Scaring people can convince them to hand over their money
Dating with Asperger’s
Matthew Rozsa
My friends say I should "just use common sense." But few pieces of advice are more frustrating to an autistic
“Thirty-Nine Questions for White People” artist Naima Lowe: “Who gets to be white hasn’t always been the same”
Prachi Gupta
Lowe talked to Salon about race, privilege and how she arrived at questions like “How do you know you’re white?”
“12 Years a Slave”: The powerful book that inspired the film
Kyle Minor
Solomon Northup's 1854 book should be required reading for anyone who wants to know America's history
The future can’t be all white: Why Uhura and Beetee matter
Alexis Charles
From "Catching Fire" to "Star Trek," we need a vision of the future that lets us know we can all be somebody
The American media has no idea how to talk about race on-screen
Sydette Harry
But they're (slowly) learning, thanks to social media campaigns that are forcing difficult conversations
Sid and Nancy: The final hours
Sherill Tippins
Nancy Spungen's infamous death at New York's Chelsea Hotel left a mystery that will never be solved
New York magazine’s bad bet
Scott Timberg
The storied weekly earned plaudits for scaling back on print. Here's why it shouldn't have
Green Swag: A lunchbox for people who take their lunch very seriously
Lindsay Abrams
Do you have what it takes to pack a healthy, waste-free meal?
Are we in for a season of Jennifer Lawrence haters?
Daniel D'Addario
Is Jennifer Lawrence the next Anne Hathaway?
New York Times’ blind spot on Clinton and race
Falguni A. Sheth
The real reasons the power couple needs to repair relations with African-Americans are beyond the paper of record
Bones, fobbits and green beans: The definitive glossary of modern U.S. military slang
Ben Brody
The past 12 years at war in Iraq and Afghanistan have given rise to an expansive (and amazing) new vocabulary
The right’s core dishonesty: How Obamacare became its own culture war
Brian Beutler
Hostilities to the law have become detached from the ideological and partisan antipathies that gave rise to them
GOP debunked on food stamps: Everything they say about SNAP is wrong
Paul Rosenberg
Forget the nonsense about them breeding dependency. Food stamps increase self-sufficiency, research shows
Gwyneth Paltrow and her trainer make a tone-deaf lifestyle series
Daniel D'Addario
The actress wants you to restart your life!
Politico’s useless new “magazine”: Heavy on Politico, short on magazine
Alex Pareene
Because the world needed yet another place to read Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell
The pope vs. the bishops: Challenges to building a church for the poor
Vinnie Rotondaro
Pope Francis has won over many with doctrine-based economic populism. Why is he so alone among Catholic leadership?
Atheist churches: A new type of secular community
Adam Lee
They're trying to offer all the best parts of church, but without the religion
Panel warns that contaminated water is still a major risk at Fukushima
Lindsay Abrams
The plant's operator also won rare praise for its safety efforts
GOP’s race problem: What’s really behind that bad tweet
Brittney Cooper
The party's Rosa Parks fiasco only hints at its problems with civil rights -- here's why it should be afraid
Joan Rivers’ troubling pattern of lashing out at other women
Daniel D'Addario
Rivers has come along way in an industry unfriendly to women -- but now she's pulling the ladder up behind her
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