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A “Bar Rescue” in Puerto Rico: Helping a business — and community — rebuild after Hurricane Maria

Erin Keane
Reality TV steps in to help a couple grappling with the unglamorous reality of rebuilding after a disaster

Don’t call them “free-range” kids: Neoliberal language undermines this positive movement

Sophia A. McClennen
The “free-range” parenting movement is a good fight for kids’ rights, but the language isn't doing us any favors

Neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor makes us regret the internet

Nicole Karlis
A Twitter account mocking the petty grievance culture of Nextdoor becomes more popular than the real thing

Rachel Dolezal faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of felony charges for welfare fraud

Rachel Leah
Dolezal, who changed her name to Nkechi Diallo, is accused of being overpaid a total of $8,847 from social services

It took Jennifer Fox 35 years to be ready to make “The Tale,” an intimate portrait of abuse

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon talks to the writer/director of the searing HBO drama about child sex abuse and the stories we tell ourselves

“Iggy at his most Iggiest”: Rock heroes like you’ve never seen them before

Amanda Marcotte
Salon talks to music industry legend Bill Bentley about his crowd-sourced collection of rock photos for Smithsonian

“Arrested Development” returns and there’s something rotten in the banana stand

Melanie McFarland
The headlines surrounding the same-as-ever fifth season make its return awkward, and not in a good way

Focus on Scott Pruitt’s scandals ignores the biggest of all: Destruction of environmental safeguards

Justin Anderson
Trump's EPA chief has fully adapted to the swamp of corruption. But his truly disastrous legacy lies elsewhere

Hillbilly horror: Reckoning with a genre 15 years after “Wrong Turn”

Elizabeth Price
American horror has historically been unkind to Appalachia

Donald Trump threatens to deport NFL players who defy him — and that’s just the beginning

Chauncey DeVega
Trump's racist attacks have a deeper meaning: The ultimate goal is not NFL players but crushing all dissent

Jason Bateman’s defense of Jeffrey Tambor: Boys’ club mentality is alive on “Arrested Development”

Rachel Leah
Tambor admitted to yelling at co-star Jessica Walter, and Bateman and his male co-stars tried to paint it as normal

Trump taunts kneeling players after NFL cracks down on protests: “You shouldn’t be in the country”

Matthew Rozsa
The president and vice president take a political victory lap over the latest battle in the culture wars

Blaming Donald Trump’s presidency on “liberal smugness” is a tired trope: Can we give it a rest?

Reed Richardson
Mainstream media remains obsessed with the notion that left-wing intolerance is somehow to blame for Trump

Sarah Silverman defends Al Franken: “I’m so sad that he got bullied into resigning”

Rachel Leah
In GQ, the comedian addresses empathy and accusations against her friends Franken, Louis C.K and Aziz Ansari

White men and their guns: Carnage is the price conservatives are willing to pay

Chauncey DeVega
Why last week's mass murder at Santa Fe High School won't be a catalyst for meaningful gun control

Diversity of thought and approach are the heart of experimentation and invention

Nadine Dietz
With a dual role in the C-suite, Linda Boff is the guardian of GE's culture of experimentation and invention

Did Elliott Broidy pay off yet another former Trump mistress for a massive consulting contract?

Heather Digby Parton
Heard the one about the former Playboy model, the series of payoffs and the massive bribe? Actually, you haven't

Donald Trump’s presidency has hit remarkable new heights of corruption — and most of it is legal

Conor Lynch
Michael Cohen's corruption is only the tip of the Trump iceberg. But the answer to this crisis won't come in court

Beyond Golden Shower diplomacy: Preserving the positive legacy of an empire in decline

Alfred McCoy
A recent poll shows the world's approval of U.S. leadership dropped to a record low of 30 percent

Sexual consent, beyond “no means no”: “13 Reasons Why” season 2 breaks new ground

Melanie McFarland
The overall merit of season 2 is highly debatable, but one scene enriches our discussions about sex and consent

“This Is America” roundtable: Is Donald Glover a genius?

D. Watkins
The Root's Danielle Young and Complex editor in chief Damien Scott join me to break down Childish Gambino's latest

Jordan Peterson’s moment of fame — and the dangers of patriarchal pseudoscience

Jared Yates Sexton
Canadian psychologist peddling pop-culture patriarchy is suddenly a superstar. But he's no intellectual rebel

No, girls and women don’t “provoke” mass murderers

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The media obsession with assigning motive to killings is a classic example of blaming the victim

In conversation with MTV’s Franchesca Ramsey: On life as an “accidental activist”

D. Watkins
The comedian and author of a new memoir talks about why the world doesn't need "another hot take on Kanye"
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