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Dan Harmon just can’t shut up
Willa Paskin
The "Community" creator ruins a triumphant return with his insufferableness -- and rape jokes
Novelist calls out London Review of Books for excluding women
Prachi Gupta
According to an inforgraphic in the Guardian, the LRB has virtually no female contributors
Gandolfini’s death prompts rampant fat-shaming
Ej Dickson
Because being snarky on the Internet is way more important than being a decent human being
Paula Deen’s racism isn’t shocking at all
Roxane Gay
For people of color, the question isn't if someone will reveal their racial bias -- it's when
The end of sockeye salmon?
Aaron Kase
A massive mine proposal could wipe out half of the world's remaining wild population
What Tony Soprano taught me about motherhood
Irene Karras
Gandolfini's performance got me through my daughter's first year (and let me feel rebellious while breast-feeding)
James Gandolfini was fat and sexy
Rachel Kramer Bussel
He showed that big guys can have erotic power
How Snowden empowers China
Pepe Escobar
New NSA revelations could give the Asian superpower bargaining leverage in future negotiations with the US
James Gandolfini: “No character captured the longing and melancholy of American life better than Tony Soprano”
Heather Havrilesky
The actor's transfixing blend of gruffness and vulnerability breathed life into most memorable TV protagonist ever
The Tea Party’s sad, nostalgic reunion tour
Alex Seitz-Wald
Glenn Beck leads a throng of wacky people wishing it were 2010 again -- the last time they were taken seriously
“Ex-gay” Christian group to LGBT people: We’re sorry
Katie McDonough
"I understand why I am distrusted and why Exodus is hated," writes Exodus International president Alan Chambers
Serena’s rape victim-blaming got everything wrong
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The tennis star's apology for her comments about the Steubenville rape victim didn't help matters either
E.L. Konigsburg brought the city to the ‘burbs
Molly Rosner
The late author invited children to explore urban culture in "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"
Internet trolls love feminist writers
Lauren Rankin
The irony is that for all their misogyny, they spend an inordinate amount of time reading about women's issues
Creepy pickup artist rakes in Kickstarter cash
Katie McDonough
Kickstarter campaigner Ken Hoinsky offers tips for overcoming women's "resistance"
Meet America’s most shameless defender of the 1 percent
Lynn Stuart Parramore
Harvard economist Greg Mankiw's latest paper defends the superrich as a source of all that's good in our economy
Gun nuts’ strangest subculture: Book clubs
Patrick Wensink
Mega gun shows have an odd literary side and a secretly thriving self-publishing side. The books are pretty bizarre
John Horne Burns: The writer Hemingway and Vidal envied
David Margolick
"The Gallery" was among the first (and best) novels about gay life in the military. Its author has an amazing story
Five easy steps for becoming a rape apologist
Katie McDonough
James Taranto's editorial provides a handy guide for blaming the victim
There are no unicorns in North Korea
Alicia Eler
Artist Young Sun Han examines Western misconceptions about the Koreas and the ghosts that haunt his work
How cash secretly rules surveillance policy
David Sirota
Today's congressional hearing was a joke. The reason: Firms like Booz Allen bankroll and own Congress. Here's how
Is there a “liberal bias” in academia?
Jeffrey J. Williams
Sociologist Neil Gross dispels the myth that college campuses are overrun with lefty East Coast intellectuals
What “The Bling Ring” gets wrong about Valley girls
Elissa Strauss
Their obsession with designer labels has a purpose: They want to feel equal to the rich and famous
Millennials likely aren’t as conservative as they think
Tom Jacobs
New research suggests a disconnect between how young people identify politically and their actual stances on issues
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