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I was slimed by Gawker: In the worst year of my life, I became a regular target — and it was devastating

Mary Elizabeth Williams
I've never stopped looking over my shoulder, wondering how or when I might again become an object of scorn

Nicki Minaj cares too much about MTV and the “white kids” awards— and here’s why she’s not wrong

Shannon M. Houston
Black women are constantly told they're too angry, while the deck is stacked in favor of the Taylor Swifts

Katy Perry shuts Taylor Swift down over her Nicki Minaj blunder

Anna Silman
Katy Perry has entered the fray

Good news/bad news, guys: Women don’t care about penis size — but they do have opinions about your pubic hair

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Put down the measuring tape and pick up the clippers—it's time for a "Brozilian" or a "Butt Reynolds"

5 times Taylor Swift embarrassed herself

Anna Silman
Her latest foot-in-tweet at Nicki Minaj over racial bias in the music industry isn't Swift's first public gaffe

Margaret Cho has a perfect theory about white outrage: “White people like to tell Asians how to feel about race because they’re too scared to tell black people”

Colin Gorenstein
Cho said she wasn't surprised to find white people were the loudest critics of her Golden Globes appearence

Here’s why you’re taking the tragic Bennifer break-up so personally

Scott Timberg
Turns out Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's divorce reveals "something deeply fundamental to people's psychology"

Bill Cosby, Loretta Young, Jackie Fuchs: Why the time is right to reckon with rape — even those that happened decades ago

Amanda Marcotte
Until recently, we didn’t have the language to grapple honestly with what happened -- today, rape is just rape

Dear white progressives: Stop telling black people how to vote

Janessa Robinson
The left has always used black voters without truly prioritizing black issues — we're done coming through for you

The Humans of New York parodies that will save us: Talking cats, lizard people and the power of the subversive meme

Paula Young Lee
Give me a dead-eyed kitten or anthropomorphic reptiles among us over the treacly pathos-lite of HoNY

“Bachelorette” Kaitlyn rejects slut-shaming, sexist trolling and death threats: How one woman is forcing the retrograde show to reckon with its own demons

Anna Silman
Kaitlyn's sex-positive attitude has attracted an extraordinary measure of abuse

5 ways corporate HR departments monitor your movements — even when you’re not working

Glynis Sweeny
More and more workers are being spied on by human resources and they probably don't even know it

White people get “The Wire” all wrong: Its lessons on race and racism must be absorbed

Paul Achter
David Simon's show is right about systemic racism and failure of American dream. Deny that and you deny its power

10 Things to Know for Today

Even “cheating dirtbags” deserve privacy: The Ashley Madison hack shows we’ve reached peak sex shaming

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cosby's deposition revealed facts about an alleged crime—private citizens' consensual sex should remain private

Ben Shapiro files police report against trans woman Zoey Tur for her response to his deliberate provocations

Scott Eric Kaufman
Shapiro's playing a coward's game -- deliberately provoking someone, then running to the police when they respond

I gave up Ayn Rand for Bernie Sanders: How I grew up and traded libertarianism for a progressive “socialist”

Edwin Lyngar
Most self-identifying "libertarians" actually subscribe to a bankrupt ideology. What if they all opened their eyes?

Chris Matthews’ dumb Bernie Sanders disdain: Dopey pundit drools over W’s “mission accomplished,” doesn’t think vets’ advocate can be commander in chief

Paul Rosenberg
A "who takes Bernie seriously" rant by D.C.'s silliest wind-up toy gets Sanders, and American history, all wrong

“Selma” director Ava DuVernay: “Follow the white guys, they’ve got this thing wired”

Anna Silman
The director spoke out about diversity, empowerment, and her decision not to direct Marvel's "Black Panther"

“A physical experience”: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the visceral truth about white supremacy

Elias Isquith
White Americans think of racism as prejudice or unfairness. But the reality is much more visceral — and violent

Rachel Dolezal: “I wouldn’t say I’m African-American, but I would say I’m black”

Scott Eric Kaufman
She tells Vanity Fair "you can't just say in one sentence what is black or what is black culture"

The most terrifying thing about GOP abortion politics: Jeb Bush is considered a *moderate*

Heather Digby Parton
The Planned Parenthood hoax has made one thing abundantly clear: There's no low Republicans won't stoop to

It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties

Mick Hume
The "shut it down" crowd that would sanitize humor just doesn't get it: Radical comedians should be allies
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