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Drunk sex, high hook-ups and shame-overs: How social lubricants affect our sex lives

Erin Coulehan
A new study looks at how, when and why alcohol and pot factor into sexual encounters and their aftermaths

John Oliver’s newspaper rant hits a nerve: “We’ve watched it being not-so-slowly destroyed by forces beyond our control”

Scott Timberg
The "Last Week Tonight" segment on the decline of print journalism nets cheers—a bit of protest—inside the industry

Dareen Tatour, Palestinian poet imprisoned by Israel for social media posts, shares her story

Ben Norton
Exclusive interview with Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour from her home, where she remains under house arrest

A “high plains drifter” who is adrift on history: Clint Eastwood’s troubling nostalgia for a past that never really existed

Chauncey DeVega
“When I grew up, those things weren't called racist,” Eastwood said, seemingly oblivious to his cultural chauvinism

Toxic white male nerd avengers: What’s really behind the “Suicide Squad” super-fan freak-out

Matthew Rozsa
Here's why a certain type of rabid pop-culture fandom transforms into ugly mob behavior online

John Waters, revolutionary: “Multiple Maniacs” is much more than camp

Andrew O'Hehir
How an unknown Baltimore filmmaker's homemade outrage changed the world — and prefigured a gender revolution

Teaching kids empathy: In Danish schools, it’s … well, it’s a piece of cake

Jessica Alexander
American students are falling behind on valuable social skills. In Denmark, one simple classroom tradition works

Gentrification heads north: Harlem’s rich people problem, and how STEM education can solve it

Brendan Gauthier
Silicon Harlem's Clayton Banks explains Harlem's unique gentrification that's "not one ethnicity replacing another"

A lie enabled by the American corporate news media: “Decent” people do not support Donald Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Bigotry and vulgarity are central to Trumps's appeal to millions of voters — that's a fact

The GOP’s youth-vote disaster: Donald Trump’s nomination could hurt Republicans for years to come

Simon Maloy
Republicans were already at risk of sacrificing a whole generation of younger voters, and then they nominated Trump

Expand your punk knowledge: Slash magazine collection will school you on the ’70s L.A. scene

Marc Spitz
Unfairly maligned as the third-best punk scene, L.A.'s importance is captured in this essential new anthology

Ivanka’s insulating power: What the Trump scion still doesn’t get about sexual harassment

Silpa Kovvali
Harassment isn't a company culture issue, as she says, it's a legal one—and laws give strength to the powerless

Cease all Trump sanctimony: Republicans want to disavow a monster they created because it is devouring them alive

Daniel Denvir
It's tempting to think that Trump has finally gone too far, but he's just giving his backers exactly what they want

You can admit you’ve moved on: It’s not a betrayal to outgrow your one-time favorite band

Annie Zaleski
Music and other pop-culture fandoms often demand lifelong loyalty, but there's no harm in being done

A Form Letter of Death for Paul O’Neal, the 18-year-old black teen shot in the back by Chicago police

Chauncey DeVega
The script I use when having to write time after time about police brutality against black people

Why “Revolver” still matters: The 50th anniversary of a Beatles masterpiece

Scott Timberg
The band's 1966 album was so eclectic it seems on the verge of exploding

It’s OK to say the F-word: Sarah Jessica Parker should read Obama’s “this is what a feminist looks like” essay

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Another famous woman declares she's not a feminist, she just believes in equality—you know, like feminists do

We can’t look away: The joy of Donald Trump and political rubbernecking

Chauncey DeVega
Trump’s campaign and his takeover of the Republican Party are the political equivalents of a car accident

Talk about an empty chair! Clint Eastwood doesn’t understand how the government works

Gary Legum
Like Trump, Eastwood thinks an intrepid POTUS-CEO can fix everything, but the US government is not a corporation

Millennial sex panic! Why are we so worried they aren’t getting enough action?

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Everyone calm down and stop judging young adults for "missing out on a good time"

The troubling and counterproductive trend of liberals policing free speech: We cannot silence those we disagree with

Matthew Rozsa, Mark Schierbecker
We can defeat opponents of diversity and inclusivity without sacrificing American bedrock values in the process

Gwyneth Paltrow to mentor contestants in Apple’s new reality series “Planet of the Apps”

Scott Eric Kaufman
It's like "Shark Tank," only about apps, and with a irate primate instead of a frightening fish reference

The case of Purvi Patel: How Mike Pence won his crusade against abortion in Indiana

Eesha Pandit
Patel faced 20 years for feticide before charges were dropped — but women's rights are still endangered in Indiana

Just like ’80s nerd heaven: The seductive nostalgia of “Stranger Things” — and my unexpected ambivalence

Ethan Gilsdorf
Netflix's supernatural show raids my childhood pop-culture loves, from D&D to E.T. — and I admit, I felt conflicted
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