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GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”
Alex Seitz-Wald
Young Christian-right leaders think the answer to their problems with young voters lies in more snark
TSA agent allegedly tells teenage girl to “cover herself”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
And the girl's dad, Boing Boing editor Mark Frauenfelder, fights back
How Kraft salad dressing is profiting off the female gaze
Daniel D'Addario
Kraft is flipping the script with a male pitchman -- but the formula may be the same old exploitation
Can a show about murdering women actually be feminist?
Joe Winkler
On TV, we seem to find violence against women endlessly entertaining -- but "The Fall" challenges us to do better
App of the Week: The Sonnet Project
Andrew Leonard
A perfect match of medium and mode: 14-line poems by the greatest writer who ever lived come to the smartphone
I failed a Mensa test — twice
Noah Davis
I tried to become a member of the exclusive society, and all I got was a lousy number 2 pencil
The theme song of the radical right
John Stauffer, Benjamin Soskis
How "Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- Reagan's favorite song -- became the background music of the modern GOP
Now the dead can send Facebook messages too
Marc Ellison
A new app lets users record video messages that are released to friends and family postmortem
To my daughter on Father’s Day: Sorry I used to be a sexist
Mo Elleithee
I was the guy who didn’t even notice all of society’s subtle sexist behaviors -- until I had a girl
From Ike to “The Matrix”: Welcome to the American dystopia
Andrew O'Hehir
Part Orwellian security state, part Huxley wonderland and part "Matrix," America is three dystopias in one!
Confessions of a Playgirl editor
Tracy Clark-Flory
A former insider dishes on the magazine's unmentionable gay fans, absurd photoshoots and bizarre reader mail
Lynda Obst: Hollywood’s completely broken
Lynda Obst
When you stopped buying DVDs and started streaming on Netflix, Hollywood's economics changed. So did the movies
Turkish protesters’ war on bad architecture
Jennifer Kabat
An architectural critic explains why his country's fights for democracy and open urban space are the same battle
How we do it: Maybe monogamy isn’t natural!
Robert Martin
From incest to sperm competition and polyamory, anatomy -- not social arrangements -- explain how a species mates
“I’ve gone to resist, I’ll be right back”
Ali Bektas
Despite a deadly crackdown, "the resistance" remains strong across Turkey as protesters continue to hold Gezi Park
Patton Oswalt on “prodigalsam” plagiarism flap: “There’s no wiggle room there”
Daniel D'Addario
Oswalt opens up about the attitudes that hurt comedy -- including those that helped a minister plagiarize jokes
Kanye West album “Yeezus” leaks on Internet
Prachi Gupta
And the most talked-about lyric is about croissants
The most ridiculous depictions of the Internet in movies and TV
Daniel D'Addario
From "The Bling Ring" to "Veep" to "House of Cards," a look at the silliest depictions of digital culture
Snowden deserves our sympathy
David Sirota
Government has too many of us convinced that the whistle-blower is somehow worse than the crimes he reports
CIA deputy slut-shamed over erotica reading
Laura Miller
The Daily Beast sniggers over a bookstore erotica night the first female deputy director hosted 20 years ago
Mandela’s death will expose a divided South Africa
Stuart Sutton-Jones
Gov. Scott “Ultrasound” will never be president
Joan Walsh
The governor’s 2016 hopes will be dashed by his signing Wisconsin’s mandatory ultrasound bill
Highlights from Roger Ailes’ Kennedy Center speech
Jillian Rayfield
The Fox News president talked Benghazi, the IRS and, of course, Obama
This is how you talk about military sex abuse
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A blistering message from a general gets everything right
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