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Why I’m sick of “woke” culture

D. Watkins
The more affluent control the narrative so being "woke" will be hot until the rest of black America gets a voice

America’s fatal flaw: The founders assumed our leaders would have some basic decency

David Masciotra
Our democracy was founded on optimism about human nature. Amid the Trumpian wreckage, that looks like a bad bet

“Birds of Prey” is a fantabulous, feminist grenade

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Harley Quinn is back to take down the patriarchy, and this revolution brings scrunchies

A stock market boom is not the basis of shared prosperity

Thomas I. Palley
The U.S. addiction to stock price inflation is rooted in an illusion

“Wuhan coronavirus” and the racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
The rhetoric around 2019-nCoV — the "Wuhan coronavirus" — plays on centuries-old racist sentiments against Asians

Comet chameleon? Here’s why this nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
Two years of data from the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft revealed that Comet 67P changes between red and blue

Impeachment, the Constitution and Donald Trump: Scholar William Howell on America after acquittal

Chauncey DeVega
Trump got away with it, mostly. But Howell believes trying to hamstring the presidency would be a big mistake

Edie Falco on playing a good cop, resistance to change, and Giuliani’s love for “Sopranos”

D. Watkins
The Emmy winner appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss her new CBS police drama "Tommy" and the issues it tackles

How the real-life “Cheer” team became fodder for an “SNL” spoof and memes

Ashlie D. Stevens
The docuseries' viral success — and memeability — lies in how it captured the performances off the mat

America: The land of make-believe

Chris Hedges
This battle against collective self-delusion is a battle I fear we will not win

7 must-read novels to transport you in February

Hanh Nguyen, Ashlie D. Stevens, Erin Keane
From the riots in Chicago to a dystopian future with queer badass librarians, take a leap with these curated picks

“American Factory” filmmakers on how the Dayton-set doc became one of the year’s most joyful movies

Andrew O'Hehir
Directors Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar on their comic, surreal, true-life tale of a Chinese factory in Ohio

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez stun in a stealthily political Super Bowl halftime show

Melanie McFarland
Most of the Super Bowl LIV audience likely had no clue of what Shakira and J.Lo were actually saying. That's fine

CNN’s Wajahat Ali: “We knew what would happen” under Trump, but the media just played along

Chauncey DeVega
CNN commentator on how white privilege has warped media coverage of Trump — and how Trumpists may destroy America

Trump: The very selective corruption fighter

Ryan O'Connell
Donald Trump claims he cares about corruption in Ukraine . . . but not Hungary and Turkey?

Hate cancel culture? Blame algorithms

Anjana Susarla
Thanks to algorithms, outrage often snowballs

Both Super Bowl LVIII team names are pretty racist — Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers

Matthew Rozsa
Cheering at Super Bowl LVIII means picking one racist team name over another

When is the right time to talk about sexual assault? If it upsets men, apparently never

Carolyn Kellogg
To journalists, I knew writing an obituary meant considering the full person, warts and all. Then came the threats

The Kobe Bryant rape case is painful not because of what it says about him, but about us

Amanda Marcotte
The Bryant case kicked off the decade that changed how we talk about sexual abuse, and that matters

Isn’t she delicate? “Miss Americana” spotlights Taylor Swift’s eating disorder & loneliness

Ashlie D. Stevens
The new Netflix documentary traces the pop star's highs and lows to understand where she's arrived as an artist

Resist false hope: America under Trump is in big trouble, and there’s no going back

Chauncey DeVega
Mainstream "hope peddlers" keep telling us everything will be normal again. But it won't — time to face the truth

The disaster of utopian engineering

Chris Hedges
Neoliberalism, as a class project, is a brilliant success

Robert Reich: The big picture on the impeachment trial

Robert Reich
Here are the 10 big things you need to understand about the Senate trial

Netflix’s “The Stranger” is an anxiety-inducing thriller that asks how well you know your loved ones

Melanie McFarland
Based on Harlan Coben's novel, the mystery series will make you glad you stayed at home safe . . . or are you?
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