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Fox’s Bob Beckel makes a lame rape apology
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The co-host of "The Five" still doesn't understand that rapes happen on college campuses, too
Football stadium named after private prison corporation
Natasha Lennard
The all-American sport to be branded in Boca Raton, Fla., by the prison industrial complex
Illness is big business
Jennifer Sky
American healthcare is embedded in a competitive medical industry, which often ignores extensive patient care
Who opposes an anti-trafficking law?
Irin Carmon
Culture war posturing in the House over women's health services pits Catholic bishops against the White House
Dick Cheney and Laura Bush plead support for marriage equality
Mary Elizabeth Williams
You don't have to have to be liberal to support same-sex unions. Updated: Bush asks to be removed from ad
Iran protests Berlin film festival organizers
Prachi Gupta
The festival awarded Jafar Panahi for "Closed Curtain," but in Iran, he's banned from filmmaking
Instagram image suggests Palestinian child as IDF target
Natasha Lennard
An image seeming to show a boy in cross hairs prompts outrage and disturbs the IDF's social media P.R. efforts
Baptists for marriage equality
Sarah Posner
Hood supports the Uniting American Families Act, which allows same-sex couples to get immigration benefits
“Cult”: A tale of the evil showrunner
Willa Paskin
The CW show really puts Matt Weiner’s obsession with spoilers into perspective
Thank you for being a friend, Hannah Horvath
Meghan Lewit
Why is TV so enamored of the "Golden Girls" archetypal quartet to explore female friendship?
Getting prescription meds right
Maia Svalavitz
If drugs like Adderall help some people and harm others, why do reports on the drug skew one way or the other?
Tammy Duckworth sets the record straight on women in combat
Katie McDonough
The Iraq war veteran says killing doesn't affect men and women differently, but is "an unnatural act for everyone"
When the Internet was for strangers
Adrian Chen
Facebook has degraded our friendships, but do online relationships have to be limited to "Catfish"-like scenarios?
The “labia pride” movement
Tracy Clark-Flory
Rebelling against the porn aesthetic, women are taking to the Internet to sing the praises of "endowed" women
What does OKCupid want?
Rob Horning
Dating companies hope to replace our search for love with a search for better searching
Who’s to blame for gun violence? Movie critics!
Andrew O'Hehir
In a bizarre new essay, Thomas Frank suggests that Hollywood — and movie critics — are the NRA's "propaganda wing"
What we liked this week
Prachi Gupta
From a Beyoncé doc to an amazing stalker memoir, here's what our critics are obsessed with right now
LAPD’s indefensible Dorner pursuit
David Cay Johnston
The hunt for Christopher Dorner, which injured innocent civilians, reveals how little the department has changed
Sports Illustrated uses people of color as props in swimsuit issue
Katie McDonough
The magazine is the latest to stir controversy by using people of color as background fodder
The economics of the Harlem Shake
Andrew Leonard
A lesson in how to cash in on viral dance-video copyright infringement mayhem
Drones aren’t “humane weapons”!
David Sirota
And the argument that they're more surgical than ground warfare obscures any discussion of peaceful alternatives
Grand Old Jurassic Party
Steve Erickson
With its focus on ideological purity, the Republican species is pushing itself toward extinction
Pick of the week: This is how you overthrow a dictator
Andrew O'Hehir
The Oscar-nominated "No" spins a crazy-true story of the dopey TV ads that sank Gen. Augusto Pinochet
Understanding Christopher Dorner
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
The ex-cop was a product of a society gone mad on racism and war -- and a state that aggressively punishes dissent
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