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Black lives don’t matter in the gun debate: America’s crisis is much bigger than mass murder
Lois Beckett
Until we accept that U.S. gun violence is largely a story of race and geography, our policies are doomed to fail
Our #blacklivesmatter Thanksgiving: Race, terror, Trump and political correctness collide at Thanksgiving
Chauncey DeVega
A holiday bound in myths, and based on America's founding sins, arrives in the middle of a fraught conversation
Our Thanksgiving hatred is getting out of hand: How to survive a holiday that has become a war zone
Jack Mirkinson
Judging from the avalanche of articles this week, Thanksgiving is an unbearable ordeal. But it doesn't have to be!
The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke
George Makari
There will be no lack of odes to colonial America today. Let's also remember the man whose ideas made it possible
Reasons to give thanks: America is a total mess — and some of it is good news
Andrew O'Hehir
GOP insanity and resurgent youth activism are aspects of America's long and necessary struggle with history
The family that binge-watches together stays entertained together: 10 shows you can devour with the whole family this holiday weekend
Sonia Saraiya
You're stuck in the same house all weekend — here are the shows you can watch with grandma and the kids
Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value”
Sean Illing
Famed atheist and Salon debate and discuss Islamophobia, religion and liberalism, as well as Ben Carson's appeal
Why I believed that dumb Pynchon death hoax: The elusive novelist is tailor-made to be the butt of bizarre rumors
Scott Timberg
Thomas Pynchon is still alive—but he might fake-die a few more times in his lifetime
Chris Hayes rips Steve King for claiming not one Muslim immigrant has ever “assimilated”: “Can you really defend that statement about 6 million people?”
Sophia Tesfaye
"Do you think fundamentally Muslims from the Middle East are incompatible with American democracy?"
Sherri Shepherd can’t dodge child support anymore: Surrogate birth isn’t a legal loophole to exploit
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A Pennsylvania court says a child conceived via surrogate is still the former "The View" co-host's responsibility
We, the people, remain filled with rage: Race, Yale, p.c. and a nation spinning apart
Jim Sleeper
The noise machine of conservative media and partisanship gone amok has machine-gunned and closed the American mind
The false resurrection of George W. Bush: Don’t be fooled by calls to reassess his loathsome legacy
Paul Blest
Our 43rd president looks reasonable compared to what came afterwards. But you shouldn't be fooled by appearances
Black football players should all strike: The one immediate move guaranteed to bring about immediate political change
Steve Almond
The University of Missouri proved football players have serious political clout. What if they used it?
Visions of a Nazi America: How “The Man in the High Castle” both sharpens and blurs the lines between “us” and “them”
Sonia Saraiya
The television adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel departs from the book but asks even darker questions
Men can become multi-orgasmic too: Enjoy the sexual perks of these simple exercises
Carrie Weisman
Who says kegels are just for women? Here's how they can enhance men's sex lives too
Who needs Maxim when you can hate women on Reddit and 4chan?
Amanda Marcotte
Lad mags were part of the late '90s backlash to feminism. They don't hold a candle to the misogyny you find online
Rep. Steve King: No one from the Middle East has ever been successfully assimilated into “Americanism”
Scott Eric Kaufman
And once they fail to do so, he added, they become terrorists
Jihadism is not nihilism: What everyone gets wrong about ISIS
Marty Kaplan
Religious fanaticism is a consequence of faith, not of losing faith. It's important that we make the distinction
This is why Donald Trump is winning: Paranoia brings out the worst in us — and minorities always suffer
Arthur Chu
The day after the Paris terror attacks, I watched the story of the WWII Japanese-American internment with new eyes
What makes a city sexy? Here’s why these 10 cities made the list
Carrie Weisman
Which city's people get laid the most, who's most into kink, who has the longest sex sessions -- read it all here
“The children are having sex!”: The sexting scandal in Colorado that highlights America’s dangerous sex-ed shortcomings
Daniel Denvir
A Colorado school district is embroiled in a high-profile sexting controversy. But the real scandal is elsewhere
Donald Trump’s white fascist brigade: His rallies are now a safe space for racism
Chauncey DeVega
An activist is beaten and taunted with racial slurs at a Trump rally in Alabama. This is just the beginning
This is why we must fear Trump: He makes the insane Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio look sensible
Amanda Marcotte
Trump's racism is bad for Republicans now, but the eventual wild-eyed nominee will only look moderate in comparison
This is why we’re so f*cked: Our politics are only going to get worse
Paul Rosenberg
We'd like to be optimistic. But Democrats' demographic dream is just that. We'll need a nightmare for real change
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