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Religious freedom: It’s a core American principle, and it doesn’t mean what right-wingers want it to mean
Paul Rosenberg
Although the latter-day GOP has tried to pervert this critical idea, it's not about selling cakes to gay couples
Andrew Puzder’s shady history: Trump’s labor secretary nominee is a habitual violator of labor law
Liza Featherstone
By tapping Puzder, Trump has made clear that his administration will be a dystopian nightmare for U.S. workers
How memes are breaking down elitism in the fine art world
Katie Fustich
Drake and van Gogh have more in common than you might think
Paul Ryan’s empty moral core: Fight against Obamacare shows a man on a mission to win at any cost
D. Watkins
Bill Maher was right about Paul Ryan; now Ryan's willing to work around the truth to defeat the ACA, no matter what
A New Year’s resolution for the Republic: Make average citizens’ opinions matter again
Talmon Joseph Smith, Peter Levine
Maybe not predictable, but uncoupling public will and public policy has produced a result that was always possible
No easy walk to freedom: MLK’s anti-racism crusade needs to be renewed in today’s world
Julius A. Amin
King’s holiday is a reminder that much needs to be done to create a more inclusive global community
Keep John Lewis’ name out of your mouth, Donald Trump
D. Watkins
For a president-elect who so far is all tweets and no action, Trump's denunciation of John Lewis is especially rich
From Martin Luther King Jr. to Donald Trump: In many ways, the civil rights hero saw this coming
Chauncey DeVega
The painful convergence of Dr. King and President Trump should remind us that the long arc of history bends slowly
The alt-right eats its own: Neo-Nazi podcaster “Mike Enoch” quits after doxxers reveal his wife is Jewish
Matthew Sheffield
Bad day for the Fourth Reich: Founder of popular alt-right blog The Right Stuff resigns after foes expose him
Beyond “The Joshua Tree”: Here are 10 more big music milestones to celebrate in 2017
Annie Zaleski
There's something for every kind of music fan to wax nostalgic about this year, from "Thriller" to "Sgt. Pepper's"
Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany
John Semley
The claim that good art comes from hard times is the height of delusionally entitled thinking
The art of learning: Why art history might be the most important subject you could study today
Noah Charney
Want a more educated, less narrow-minded citizenry that can tell fake news from real? Make them take this class
Don’t think of a rampaging elephant: Linguist George Lakoff explains how the Democrats helped elect Trump
Paul Rosenberg
Democrats played into Trump's hands, Lakoff says — and they won't win until they learn how to frame the debate
Five-hour workday? Sign us up: 8 people changing the way we work in 2017
W. M. Akers
Everything from a shortened workday to paid vacation to getting rid of job titles
The sort-of Rum Diaries, 2017: Post-Castro Cuba is a crumbling gem with touches of modernity
Alli Joseph
Post-Castro Cuba is exhausting, crumbling, and lovely; as American tourism boom begins, infrastructure pushes limit
What is to be done? How Democrats can rebuild and recover from the debacle of 2016
Sean McElwee
Abandoning core principles and refusing to fight is exactly the wrong lesson. There's hope! But it will take work
Are your children learning? If you teach kindness like MLK, they pick it up
Nia Heard-Garris, Danielle Erkoboni
Children emulate what they see and hear: issuing in Trump administration begs for MLK-style kindness and empathy
The “La La Land” backlash: Will it last until the Oscars?
Scott Timberg
The musical's Golden Globes sweep will make this a very popular film for shallow people to make fun of
HBO’s “The Young Pope” makes high art for TV, but the result is less than divine
Melanie McFarland
Paolo Sorrentino casts Jude Law as a cold and cool pontiff in a miniseries long on style but lacking a soul
Dear men: Here is your engraved invitation to join the Women’s March on Washington
Erin Keane
I promise you will still be men if you stand with women — and behind them — at the Women's March on Washington
Donald Trump: Not exactly Hitler! But his “Nazi Germany” comments conceal a dark parallel pattern
Andrew O'Hehir
Trump is more like a cartoon version of Hitler than the real thing. But sometimes cartoons come to life
Cuba sees explosion in internet access as ties with US grow
Andrea Rodriguez
Buying internet cards to access wifi in Cuba may become a thing of the past: service is improving, costs are down
Americans overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders’ economic policies — so how’d we end up here?
Conor Lynch
Most Americans want single-payer health care, economic justice and action on climate change. That day will come
Justice Department report hits Chicago police for lack of accountability, rampant racial profiling
Matthew Rozsa
After more than a yearlong investigation, the Justice Department has issued a damning report about Chicago cops
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