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Prejudice makes us see innocent people as threats, study says: “We have to be more open to admitting we are biased”
Scott Timberg
New research helps explain police officer and vigilante violence toward unarmed black men
Ta-Nehisi Coates woke me up: Lessons on race, atheism and my white privilege
Greg M. Epstein
I thought I was a race-conscious white progressive humanist. Coates' book taught me how much I need to learn
We don’t need more optimists: Unchecked positive thinking is more dangerous than it sounds
Scott Timberg
From The Secret to destructive management theories, unbridled optimism is just another way to ignore real issues
Mike Huckabee & Glenn Beck are right-wing con artists: How conservative icons are stoking fear & getting filthy rich
Conor Lynch
Superstars of the conservative media ecosystem have made a killing selling modern-day snake oil
Being female is a wound that never heals: How Ani Bezzerides emerged as the real hero of “True Detective”
Sonia Saraiya
In an uneven second season, "True Detective" hits its stride with Ani's simmering rage
Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered?
Katie Herzog
Rainbow flags turn to NFL banners as former bastions of queer culture transform into playgrounds for rich straights
If Caitlyn Jenner’s advocacy is what we’ve got, so be it: On “I Am Cait,” trans issues and the beauty of imperfect activists
Jenny Kutner
Jenner's new E! series isn't going to eradicate trans discrimination -- but it is going to change a lot of minds
With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014
Juliana Barbassa
No one thought the path to the World Cup in Rio would be smooth, but it was more harrowing than anyone anticipated
Sex? No, thanks: Rather than obsession, what millions of Americans feel about sex is indifference
Valerie Tarico
A silent majority of us are sex-obsessed only once in a while, or not at all, or used to be but aren’t anymore
Pseudo-science and Bible-thumping, the worst of both worlds: The problem with rehab, AA and calling addiction a disease
Wesley Yiin
Marc Lewis tells Salon that addiction is about habit — and calling it a disease hinders addicts from recovery
Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness?
Andrew O'Hehir
After an indefensible outing story and a bizarre internal struggle, can the Web's most notorious site grow up?
Bill Clinton’s gutsy apologies: Now he owes one to Ricky Ray Rector
Paul Rosenberg
To look tough on crime, Clinton oversaw execution of a man so mentally ill he asked to save his last meal for later
Don’t feel guilty about not keeping up with new music: The bands you loved as a kid can still be your favorites
Annie Zaleski
Listening to old favorite bands is no different from revisiting the books and movies that endure
My Krautrock adventures: Faust’s albums were the greatest recordings ever made by anybody — how could I keep them to myself?
David Stubbs
When I first played Faust for my classmates they reacted with laughter -- then anger that such music even existed
There’s no such thing as “TMI”: Talking openly about the body is a feminist act
Rachel Kramer Bussel
A new slate of period podcasts are being open about, rather than hiding, bodily fluids
I’ll take a McGangBang, please: How fast food secret menus became the darlings of the new foodie elite
Ashlie D. Stevens
Don't know what a burritodilla is? How embarrassing for you ...
When the absolute right to snark turns sour: A Gawker believer reconsiders the manifesto he once held dear
Arthur Chu
Snark can be a useful tool, but when it turns into an indiscriminate hammer, everyone starts to look like a nail
Time to retire “haters gonna hate”: With Taylor Swift’s apology, the bright new post- “Shake It Off” era is born
Scott Timberg
It's dishonest and lazy to spin legitimate criticism as mindless trolling
The Planned Parenthood hoax has devolved into a string of Nazi comparisons
Bob Cesca
Sean Hannity compares Planned Parenthood to Auschwitz & Limbaugh mentions Adolf Hitler, because of course
Joshua Clover on his accidental hit Twitter tale #HowIQuitSpin: “I literally believed it would be the two of them reading it”
Scott Timberg
We talk to the poet about how his essay on an album review, a U2 concert, 9/11 and quitting his job came together
I could have been Sandra Bland: Black America’s terrifying truth
Brittney Cooper
A woman pulled over for changing lanes was arrested because she stood up for her rights. Now she's dead.
Don’t call it a “feud”: If you’re on Team Taylor or Team Nicki, you’re missing the point
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Branding this conversation about racism in the entertainment industry as a personal beef is sexism in action
“White People” probably won’t change anyone’s mind on race, identity and what it means to be white
Sonia Saraiya
Jose Antonio Vargas' hour-long afterschool special-style MTV documentary skims the surface of white privilege
Unraveling the axis of stupid: How Iran deal sends neocons, exceptionalists and Fox News xenophobes to dustbin of history
Patrick L. Smith
Let Know Nothings, Tea Party and Trump crowd rail against the deal. They rail against reality, modernity, history
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