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GOP racism of 2009: Still alive and well
Joan Walsh
Maine's Tea Party governor is sure that the president "hates white people." The party just keeps producing nut-jobs
Starving artist sells Detroit, one statue at a time
Jillian Steinhauer
Jerry Vile's "for sale" tagging of local art is a poignant op-ed about the city's bankruptcy woes
Memo to police: No, you’re not making us feel safe!
Brittney Cooper
Racial profiling and stop-and-frisk are meant to make black and brown people feel safe? Here's what it really does
No, “The Butler” is not “Forrest Gump”
Chauncey DeVega
Lee Daniels' film is conservative at heart, but that doesn't make it the same as the overwhelmingly white "Gump"
The difficult men who revolutionized TV drama
Phillip Maciak
From The Sopranos and The Wire to Breaking Bad and Mad Men; two critical histories of television's leading men
Jay Z vs. Bruce Springsteen
Daniel Browne
Pundits have accused Jay Z of ignoring his social responsibility, unlike Springsteen. But how different are they?
Sex-selective abortion bans: Just another right-wing ruse
Katie McDonough
A lawsuit says sex-selection bans like the one Trent Franks proposed are just another way to limit women's rights
How Google flushes knowledge down the toilet
Bryce Emley
Search engine optimization is filling the Internet with misinformation about human bathroom habits and more
Live forever! Can science deliver immortality?
Adam Leith Gollner
In labs around the world, researchers are trying to reverse aging. Does the latest research suggest breakthroughs?
Spam gives the Internet meaning
Kevin Driscoll
From Viagra ads to "urgent" emails to tweetbots, the evolution of the Web's worst feature helps us understand it
For video games, a moral reckoning is coming
Kevin Wong
As games get closer to complete realism, developers have to decide whether to use that power for good or evil
The sex worker stigma: How the law perpetuates our hatred (and fear) of prostitutes
Laura Agustin
Our society turns a blind eye to the murder of sex workers, deeming them less than human. Why is that?
Email is killing us: Reclaim your mind from technology
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
The world is a more distracting place than ever -- but it's possible to win your attention span back. Here's how
Science for stoners: Here’s how pot works
K.M. Cholewa
Explaining the chemistry behind medical marijuana that got Sanjay Gupta and others to finally believe
“Zealot” paints Jesus as a Nazarene Che Guevara
Andrei Codrescu
The religious scholar's book is the latest, vaguely historically accurate entry in the "Jesus-as-man" genre
9 stars whose retirements were fake
Daniel D'Addario
From Joaquin Phoenix to Cher, celebs are always pretending to retire and then taking it back
Celebrity apologies are meaningless
Roxane Gay
Russell Simmons is just the latest to follow the misstep-outcry-apology cycle. We need to demand more
Cash and Congress: The tie that binds
Michael Winship
"Yeas and nays of Congress yield not to the voice of the people but to the urgent, seductive whisper of the dollar"
My Danish teen sex epiphany
Careen Shannon
I was lucky to come of age in a country so evolved about intercourse. And it's how I raised my daughter, too
Salman Rushdie: We live in a “culture of offendedness”
Prachi Gupta
According to the novelist, the rise of religious fanaticism has given way to hatred
How war became child’s play
Tom Engelhardt
"The End of Victory Culture" examines the relationship between US military conflicts and children's entertainment
Russell Simmons apologizes for Harriet Tubman sex tape
Prachi Gupta
The Def Jam founder promoted a video that desecrates the memory of a Civil War icon and trivializes rape
GOP touts female, minority “rising stars”
Steve Peoples
RNC officials are launching an effort to highlight a more diverse generation of Republican leaders
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler”: An Oscar-worthy historical fable
Andrew O'Hehir
Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey shine in a clunky but powerful yarn about race and American history
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