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Can Christians get along with America?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bakery owners and a high school valedictorian take a stand for religion, in very different ways. But what's right?
The bogus Tesla backlash: What if the Internet saves the middle class?
Andrew Leonard
Silicon Valley, even super-cool electric car companies like Tesla, is getting a bad rap for upending the economy
American exceptionalism is nothing to brag about
David Sirota
The U.S. can't guarantee its citizens healthcare -- but it can execute them without due process
“The Internship”: A fatal overdose of Googliness
Andrew O'Hehir
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are a pair of old-school idiots facing the Info Age in the lame and lazy "Internship"
A.M. Homes: “We still live in a world where the work of male writers dominates”
Prachi Gupta
The American writer won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, beating writers like Zadie Smith and Hilary Mantel
Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics
Laura Miller
When Rachel Kushner -- not a venerable male auteur -- writes the Great American Novel, male reviewers are flummoxed
Michelle Rhee’s group finally drops anti-gay honoree
Katie McDonough
An 11-year-old's petition pushed StudentsFirst to denounce "Don't Say Gay" bill sponsor Tenn. state Rep. John Ragan
Did a scandalous Hollywood novel predict Michael Douglas’ HPV news?
Daniel D'Addario
Bruce Wagner's "Dead Stars" posited that Michael Douglas may have gotten cancer from oral sex
General deals major blow to military’s superiority myth
David Sirota
America honors soldiers -- but often bashes other public servants. Now, a general questions that double standard
Morton Downey Jr.: The man who broke talk TV
Andrew O'Hehir
Before Beck, Rush and Hannity came the brief but horrifying career of proto-Tea Partyer Morton Downey Jr.
Do prudes make better friends?
Katie McDonough
A new study finds that, when choosing friends, women snub other women they think are sexually permissive
It actually doesn’t matter whom Obama appoints
Alex Seitz-Wald
Obama's three new judicial nominees are qualified -- but Republicans will block them anyway. Here's why
The fat-shaming of school “FitnessGrams”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
If schools want healthy kids, how about letting them have more physical activity instead of incessant test prep?
Are humans getting smarter?
Claude S. Fischer
As our capacity for abstract thinking grows, so too have our IQ scores
Native American student denied diploma after wearing tribal feather in her mortarboard
Katie McDonough
Officials are withholding Chelsey Ramer's diploma and transcripts until she pays a $1,000 fine
New report reveals LGBT “poverty gap”
Katie McDonough
Contrary to dominant media narratives about gay affluence, data shows a vastly different economic reality
College Republicans’ plan for GOP rebranding: Seem tolerant!
Alex Pareene
The branch of the conservative movement that bred the party's scummiest strategists urges a softer sell
Vern Yip: My parents wanted me to be a doctor
Dan Washburn
The "HGTV Star" judge reflects on his decision to become an interior designer and his 13 years on TV
Science doesn’t know everything
Jerome Kagan
We understand much about human nature, but scientists are ignoring many important topics, like ethnicity and class
Watching the Sunday shows so you don’t have to
Jim Newell
The experts of Meet the Press, Face the Nation and This Week solve the Syria, Holder and IRS crises in mere minutes
Bret Easton Ellis interviews Matthew Specktor: People in L.A. aren’t afraid to read
Matthew Specktor, Bret Easton Ellis
The great L.A. novelists talk literary fame, Ellis' Twitter obsession, and Specktor's ace "American Dream Machine"
Could California’s salmon make a comeback?
Barry Yeoman
After years of decline, the rich human community that depends on California’s salmon runs may at last be rebounding
The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous
Tracy Clark-Flory
A new book on women's sexuality turns everything we think we know on its head
Rotten Tomatoes for rabid dog lovers
Jennifer Abel
The movie-spoiler website "Does the dog die" rates films solely on their canine body count
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