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High heels for babies are a thing: Should the first steps into sexualization happen before girls can even walk?
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Gender-neutral marketing hasn't quite reached the door of Pee Wee Pumps, high heels for the crib crowd
Twitter has found the perfect way to mock everything infuriating about Jonathan Franzen
Colin Gorenstein
#FranzenAirQuotes: The game where you guess what mansplainy thing Franzen is saying -- and everyone wins
Gun crazy: America’s love of guns is deeply coded in our national myth — and we can’t change until we face that
Andrew O'Hehir
From John Wayne's cowboys to violent anti-heroes, we cling to the stubborn, distorted morality that defines us
Mass shootings and the dark side of American exceptionalism: “They happen because there’s a large gap between what people are aspiring to and what they can realistically achieve”
Scott Timberg
A new study shows a direct relationship to a country's number of guns and its rate of public rampage killings
America’s latest dystopian nightmare: The horrifying media echo chamber of the Virginia TV shooting
Jack Mirkinson
Two people were murdered on live television today. How are we as a society supposed to reckon with such mayhem?
The scifi fans are alright: I saw the future at the Hugo Awards — and it will never belong to the toxic right-wing trolls
Arthur Chu
Online hate campaigns like Sad Puppies aren't harmless—but when we gather in person, their powers fizzle out
Lessons from the Britpop wars: Brush off the pre-social media era dust and the relics of 1995 feel almost fresh again
Annie Zaleski
20 years ago, Oasis and Blur were the center of an epic battle for top of the charts and fan allegiance
The empire strikes back: The media-political elite’s campaign to destroy Bernie (and Trump) and restore order
Andrew O'Hehir
Last week's Sanders snark-down in the Times is just the tip of the iceberg: The oligarchy wants its politics back
Michael Vick isn’t the problem: Steelers fans need to talk about rape culture
Marissa Landrigan
Fans outraged over Vick's signing need to address Ben Roethlisberger's history with women
Here’s why Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” reboot has even more “girl power” than you thought
Anna Silman
Who ya gonna call?
The GOP makes Trump look sane: Amazon, Social Security and the right’s perverse new assault on senior citizens
Matthew Rozsa
The Donald is the lone candidate not looking to raise the age of retirement. No wonder he's so far out in front
Dr. Ruth is wrong about asexuals: It’s a legitimate sexual orientation, not a problem to be solved
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Asexuals are speaking out against sex-positivity that marginalizes them
Brene Brown on embracing failure, setting boundaries and living through grief: “It is an act of compassion to love yourself”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The woman who exposed the power of vulnerability talks to Salon about the lessons of her new book
Jeb’s Asian “anchor baby” panic: Childbirth isn’t a Trojan horse scam, no matter where the parents were born
Paula Young Lee
The Asian American vote is historically a swing vote — not for long if the GOP keeps this up
The one thing Jon Stewart and Chris Christie can agree on: A salute to Bruce Springsteen, on the 40th anniversary of “Born to Run”
Scott Timberg
It's not just working-class angst or '70s nostalgia — Springsteen's sensation stands the test of time
Caught in the smart-mean trap: Is “Another Period” funny, or just awkwardly tasteless?
Sonia Saraiya
Comedy Central's satire of Gilded Age aristocrats has promise, but its first season lands more squirms than laughs
The empire strikes back: Dick Cheney, Benjamin Netanyahu and the rebirth of neoconservatism
David Bromwich
First they marched us into Baghdad. Now they're doing everything in their power to engineer a new war with Iran
Dee Barnes responds to Dr. Dre’s apology: “This is bigger than me, and bigger than hip-hop”
Anna Silman
The rapper assaulted Barnes, a hip hop journalist, at a nightclub back in 1991
Cornel West formally endorses “brother” Bernie Sanders: “A long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice”
Sophia Tesfaye
"Now is the time for his prophetic voice to be heard across our crisis-ridden country"
White people aren’t the enemy: Why social justice demands a rainbow coalition of minorities & poor whites
Musa al-Gharbi
Black Lives Matter rightly spotlights racial injustices. But let's not pretend whites are living on Easy Street
Joseph Stiglitz: Historical amnesia threatens Europe’s ruination
Lynn Stuart Parramore
The famed economist examines Greece's debt crisis and the lessons of World War II Germany has resolutely ignored
The New York Times sells out artists: Shallow data paints a too-rosy picture of “thriving” creative class in the digital age
Scott Timberg
The magazine's cheerleading for the post-Napster Internet is being described as "an exercise in gaslighting"
Anatomy of a Hillary Clinton pseudo-scandal: How Republicans and their media lackeys are trying to manufacture her downfall
Heather Digby Parton
This past weekend, we got a very good look at how Clinton's enemies are trying to destroy her
Ken Burns: Donald Trump’s birtherism — a “politer way of saying the ‘N-word'” — proves America isn’t remotely “post-racial”
Scott Eric Kaufman
He also disappointed Confederate flag apologists, listing the Civil War's 3 causes as "slavery, slavery, slavery"
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