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HBO is adapting Cheryl Strayed’s “Dear Sugar” columns: Here are her 5 most essential pieces of advice
Anna Silman
She'll reunite with "Wild" stars Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon for an HBO series called "Tiny Beautiful Things”
White America will ignore this video: The hideous & predictable violence of our schools, our legal system, our society
Chauncey DeVega
The police officer who assaulted a black student on camera will be treated like an outlier — but he isn't
Obama’s stunning reversal on standardized testing: Why his latest comments could spell doom for “reformers”
David Dayen
The president came out last weekend against the overemphasis on testing, breaking with 20 years of precedent
SXSW’s Gamergate fiasco: Canceling a panel on fighting abuse is cowardice — and it doesn’t solve anything
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The conference claims threats of violence led to a tough choice — but where's the apology?
Hillary baits Bernie beautifully: “Shouting,” sexism — and the simple sorry that would make Sanders look less jerky
Amanda Marcotte
Hillary's joke resonates because Bernie raises his voice all the time. He should acknowledge it -- but he won't
The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy
David Masciotra
With a new biography out and a recent documentary still making waves, it's time to consider Gore Vidal's legacy
Our new late-night wars: How Hillary, Bernie and the Donald are battling it out for bedtime TV dominance — and who’s winning so far
Sonia Saraiya
Election 2016's late-night cycle is well underway — who are Trump, Clinton, and Sanders in front of the camera?
Don’t panic, bacon lovers: Why the new report on cancer and processed meats doesn’t mean a total pork ban
Scott Timberg
A skeptical health researcher discusses WHO research linking some meats to cancer
No pity for the Bush family: They built the modern Republican Frankenstein
Amanda Marcotte
Bushes pandered to wingnuts for decades. Remember Willie Horton? Now they pretend not to recognize party they built
Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word
Ellen Berrey
"Diversity" sounds polite and hopeful. It's how we talk when we can't talk about race, or when whites get nervous
David Mitchell is over the genre wars: “Confining an entire genre as being unworthy of your attention is a bizarre act of self-harm”
Scott Timberg
The acclaimed author of "Cloud Atlas" talks about his new horror-inspired "Slade House," which began on Twitter
We are the evil Empire now: This is how “Star Wars” grows up — by confronting what it means to become a traitor to your own beliefs
Arthur Chu
Today's rebels are tomorrow's establishment — just ask the Tea Party. The new "Star Wars" needs to deal with that
My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare
Mary Mahoney
I was a naive teenager, desperate for belonging. But my "home" for 30 years turned out to be a house of horrors
Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right
Silas House
Three cheers for "Big Stone Gap," for destroying Hollywood's persistent hillbilly stereotypes
Welcome to the new Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander is right — our justice system doubles as a racial caste system
Sean Beaudoin, Meg Worden
Mass incarceration isn't just a system of control, it's a political philosophy. An inmate-cum-author explains
Bill O’Reilly at his most odious: Everything Fox News gets horribly wrong about rape culture and sexual assault
Kate Harding
"Being kidnapped by a pedophile: it’s basically like summer camp that never ends, if you ask Bill O’Reilly"
In defense of American elitism: The alarming truth about the rise of Donald Trump
David Masciotra
Donald Trump is all the proof you need that populism isn't all its cut out to be
They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord
Jeffrey Tayler
GOP wants Christianity as our official religion. Middle East's on fire. Theocrats are marching and must be stopped
Viva Sexy Pizza Rat: Shaming sexy Halloween costumes doesn’t help women achieve equality
Amanda Marcotte
Sexy Halloween costumes are fun and harmless. The real issue is that men still have power over women, costume or no
I’m a feminist with a football obsession: “I’m interested in the way we love things that aren’t good for us: chocolate, booze, narcissists, football”
Steve Almond
Diane Roberts is a feminist and English professor at Florida State. And a football fan, even when that's at odds
Benghazi, Joe McCarthy and the witch trials: Trey Gowdy’s farcical hearings tap into a deep, dark American current
Andrew O'Hehir
Sure, Hillary trounced those clowns. But Benghazi true believers will fight on to save America -- or destroy it
The climate change fix we need: We’ll never solve the problem until we do this
Jedediah Purdy
We can't solve global warming until we fix our politics. Here's how we start
Thrown under the train: How the railroad industry systematically targets its whistleblowers
Stuart Silverstein, Brian Joseph
Industry insiders deride a culture that punishes workers for reporting injuries or raising public safety concerns
Beyond “Star Wars” and dinosaurs: Awards season begins, and it’s been a way better movie year than you think
Andrew O'Hehir
The Gothams boost Cate Blanchett's "Carol," a gritty journalism drama -- and the amazing trans women of "Tangerine"
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