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Gun fanatics are winning the Republican civil war
Heather Digby Parton
When even Paul Ryan is viewed with suspicion, what chance is there of reining in 2nd amendment extremists?
One’s a “patriot.” One is dead: Ammon Bundy, Tamir Rice and the real story about race, Oregon and whiteness in America
Chauncey DeVega
Oregon is about guns, right-wing media and state violence as well as race. But it shows our racial inequity clearly
Larry Wilmore’s epic celebration of Bill Cosby charges: “Yes! We didn’t forget about you motherf**ker — and neither did the justice system!
Sarah Burris
"Finally, regardless of what happens next, they're being heard. And that's a start," Wilmore said.
How America’s anti-immigrant hysteria just hit an unprecedented new low
David Dayen
By way of a harsh (and previously rare) new deportation tactic, the government is putting people in real danger
The Bundy siege is a wake-up call: American extremists are getting desperate — and dangerous
Edwin Lyngar
People like the Bundy family are on the decline in America. But before they disappear, they're going to raise hell
2016’s pop culture-versaries: The films and albums celebrating milestones this year
Scott Timberg
From the Beatles to "Ferris Bueller" to Taylor Swift, here are the influences we'll be talking about this year
Justice reform’s real problem: What’s standing in the way of fixing the system isn’t policy, it’s us
Elias Isquith
A recent summit on reform showcased that elites of all stripes support change. Here's why that's not enough
They’d be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff
Chauncey DeVega
Armed white men seize a federal building. The government stands down carefully. But a 12-year-old with a toy gun?
Vanity Fair’s fawning Megyn Kelly profile makes you wish someone like Megyn Kelly would attack it
Scott Eric Kaufman
I watch Fox News for a living, and the only host who disappoints me is Kelly, because she clearly knows better
Exploiting the GOP’s self-destruction: As Trump implodes the party, only Bernie can capitalize on it for the left’s gain
Daniel Denvir
Trump's working-class base is likely susceptible to Sanders' brand of economic populism
Cops getting away with murder: It’s a warped legal system and law enforcement culture that lets them do it
Heather Digby Parton
Without a larger reform of police culture, the drug war and militarization, abuse by law enforcement will endure
My penis size obsession: All my life I’ve worried about measuring up
William Bradley
Some women make small d*ick jokes, but it seems to me this is an anxiety we men have created for ourselves
The New Wave of Islamophobia: Being Sikh or Muslim in the age of Donald Trump
Amardeep Singh
Politicians like Trump have emboldened those hostile toward minorities — we need real leaders to confront it
Here’s how we fix law school: This is the real-world training future lawyers need
Richard A. Posner
It's one thing to teach the law. But these days, lawyers also need to understand and respond to judges
“Polygamy stunts a woman’s mind”: “The Sound of Gravel” author Ruth Wariner on her fundamentalist Mormon childhood, becoming a feminist and life after leaving the church
Kristen Mascia
An exclusive joint interview: Wariner with her cousin Anna, daughter of the rival prophet who assassinated her dad
Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side”
Michael Schulson
Exclusive: The brilliant American writer and thinker on God, capitalism and our fearful democracy
We need new Noam Chomskys: Here’s how we revitalize liberal intellectualism, battle the right’s Koch-funded idea machine
Aaron Swartz
The Chomsky argument -- for media, political and economic democracy -- is now well-known. Now to find action
Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this
David Masciotra
Ritual and community are vital for weddings—but you don't need religion or $35,000 to have them
2015: The year’s best movies, from a classic screen romance to the ghosts of Auschwitz to delusional TV stardom
Andrew O'Hehir
Forget Kylo Ren! From "Carol" to the Panthers, from "Timbuktu" to "the iPhone movie," it was an amazing movie year
The big microaggression lie: The real story behind the right’s phony war on political correctness
Alyson Cole
Let's be honest: The war on p.c. is really a war on minorities and others who dare raise their voices in protest
“Delusional and reflexive invocations of American exceptionalism”: What the GOP field won’t admit about our history may make everything worse
Robin Lindley
By continuing to deny the real lessons and history of Vietnam and Iraq, we are set up to repeat tragedies again
The Chinese home I never knew
Andrea Yu
I was ashamed of living between two cultures in Toronto. It took four years in Hong Kong to feel that I belonged
I have given away my guns: I’m a Texan and a hunter, but I won’t be part of gun culture any more
Mat Thompson
I grew up hunting and love it. I may not change your mind, but mass shootings have made me think differently
I’m tired of suppressing myself to get along with white people
Priscilla Ward
I pocket my black rage, and swap "hey girl" for hello. But in making others comfortable, I'm making myself sick
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