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Steve Buscemi: “The Republicans in Congress are holding the country hostage”

Prachi Gupta
The "Boardwalk Empire" star criticizes the GOP and explains why government programs are important

The father of self-help

Laura Miller
The first independent biography of the regular guy who shaped 20th-century America, Dale Carnegie

The secret conservative message of the “Duck Dynasty” beards

Jarret Ruminski
The bushy beards on "Duck Dynasty" are part of a long history of using facial hair to signify "traditional" values

For Facebook users, it’s more like 4 degrees of separation

Tom Jacobs
New research from Taiwan suggests the social network has shrunk the distance between any two human beings

Alice Munro vs. David Gilmour

Shannon Rupp
Her Nobel Prize is a reminder to Canadians we can't let blowhards like Gilmour drag us back to the 1950s

Henry Louis Gates: “Since slavery ended, all political movements have been about race”

Daniel D'Addario
Henry Louis Gates on his PBS series, teaching anti-racism, and why we don't need a "conversation on race"

A modest proposal to neutralize gerrymandering

David Brin
Creating "ghetto" districts for minority parties has hurt our democracy. Here's one way to fight back

Birth of conservative delusion: Roger Ailes takes his revenge

Michael Goldfarb
The long road to Ted Cruz, Fox News, the Tea Party and right-wing insanity has its roots in the events of 1973

Slavery, the Rebel flag and the shutdown

Andrew O'Hehir
How the toxic effects of white supremacy, seen so clearly in "12 Years a Slave," endure in American politics

Sam Harris slurs Malala: Famed atheist wrongly co-opts teenager’s views

Murtaza Hussain
With disregard for Malala's faith and actual opinions, the atheist thinker uses her to continue his anti-Muslim war

Thank Yanks for the Tea Party!

Seth Ackerman
Liberals have it all wrong. The right's extremism is born of Old Guard Republicans, not a neo-Confederate South

“SNL’s” gender equality movement left black women out

Carolyn Edgar
Tina Fey says "SNL" replaced men in drag with female comics -- but black female characters were still played by men

Iran talks with West, but battles over outreach

Ali Akbar Dareini, Brian Murphy
Hardline groups in Iran oppose a thaw with the west

The way we talk about sexual assault is broken

Roxane Gay
While we're trapped in a cycle of toxic, victim-blaming click bait and inevitable response, rape culture thrives

“The Fifth Estate”: WikiLeaks as failed bromance

Andrew O'Hehir
Benedict Cumberbatch makes a compelling Julian Assange, but the real WikiLeaks drama gets swamped in triviality

Keep the Replacements out of the Rock Hall

Alex Pareene
Or don't. It's fine. They probably won't care either way!

Karl Lagerfeld’s cat can has cheezburger

Ej Dickson
Choupette the pet's precocious persona helps explain why felines are so worshipped -- especially online

Born to Blaze Trails: China Machado.

Sponsored by Cole Haan
Model China Machado redefined the runway and made different beautiful

How race affects who audiences forgive

Feminista Jones
Woody Allen and Roman Polanski get a pass from white audiences for abuse allegations -- black artists don't

Amazon: Threat or menace?

Andrew Leonard
"The Everything Store's" big, unanswered question: What happens when the entire economy has been "Amazoned?"

Sorry, Emily Yoffe: Blaming assault on women’s drinking is wrong, dangerous and tired

Katie McDonough
Binge drinking isn't at the heart of America's sexual assault crisis. Sexual assault is

“Kill Your Darlings”: From Hogwarts to “Howl”

Andrew O'Hehir
Daniel Radcliffe makes a terrific Allen Ginsberg in this powerful true story of the early Beats and a 1944 murder

Travel Like An Expert with Tom Marchant of Black Tomato

SPONSORED BY CANON
From travel to photography, expert guidance is the hallmark of all great service.

“Captive”: The unnatural, uncomfortable reality of zoos

Lindsay Abrams
A photographer documents the often deplorable conditions at zoos around the world. Plus, a slideshow of his work
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