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Google wants to be God’s mind: The secret theology of “I’m feeling lucky”
John Durham Peters
Google makes order of the universe and answers our entreaties. It knows that it's a temple of knowledge in the sky
Does sexual behavior have to mimic sexual orientation?
Carrie Weisman
What do you do when presented with a set of genitalia you didn’t think you were wired for?
“I already saw fire in Netanyahu’s eyes”: Behind the scenes with Bibi and Obama
Michael Oren
The inside story from Israeli ambassador to the U.S. of one of the tensest moments in the U.S./Israeli relationship
“Racial self-help” or “blaming the victim”?: 50 years after its publication, the Moynihan Report still provokes debate about the causes and cures of African-American inequality
Daniel Geary
Obama's interpretation of the report has inspired outrage from Ta-Nehisi Coates. Here's why the controversy endures
The Republican prison experiment: How the right-wing conquest of the GOP altered political reality
Andrew O'Hehir
How a stodgy, mainstream party was reinvented as a den of lunatics and monsters -- and why it was no accident
The right-wing media’s vicious profiteering: How Donald Trump & Fox News are weaponizing hate
Chauncey DeVega
The billionaire blowhard seems like a joke, but his racist invective is magnifying dangerous right-wing resentments
“The U.S. often goes to war very overconfident about how the war will turn out”
Michael Schulson
We've lost four of our last five wars, despite being the superpower. Dominic Tierney explains why this happens
Donald Trump’s third-rate ego monument: The billionaire wanna-be president who makes Trump look like a chump
Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Donald Trump may think he's one of a kind, but that isn't true. He's got nothing on William Randolph Hearst
Charter schools’ worst nightmare: A pro-union movement may change charters forever
Elias Isquith
A growing number of charter school teachers want to unionize, the American Prospect's Rachel M. Cohen tells Salon
Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s
Amy Gentry
A bit like "reading Playboy for the articles," women protest too much over their love of this gleeful stripper tale
Danielle Brooks’ bikini-ready body: Why seeing the “Orange Is The New Black” actress in a two-piece matters
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Brooks' #noshame image is a welcome antidote to the many body-shaming messages out there
You Must Hear This! The New Tweedy Brothers
Benjamin Wheelock
Fred Lackaff recalls this 1968 psychedelic folk album, a "pretty modest affair"–that now fetches thousands on eBay
Why the Donald Trump butt plug is a political insult for the ages
Caitlin Murphy
Having your likeness shaped into this sex toy is particularly offensive and embarrassing — let's break down why
Painful past, bright future: What Caitlyn Jenner and 14-year-old TLC star Jazz Jennings do — and don’t — have in common
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Jenner's ESPY speech revealed years of isolation, but in "I Am Jazz" a trans teen is surrounded by loving awareness
Ban the bump-watch: Beyoncé’s belly scrutiny is sexist, invasive and bad for all women
Rachel Kramer Bussel
While we're at it, let's also ban the term "baby bump"
Wipe the Confederacy out now: Southern haters have a sick new lie designed to hold onto Confederate flags, memorials
Musa al-Gharbi
It's actually the opposite of whitewashing history to finally be honest about slavery, the South and the Civil War
Emma Stone speaks out on “Aloha” whitewashing controversy: “I’ve become the butt of many jokes”
Anna Silman
Stone says the experience taught her a lot about the "insane history of whitewashing in Hollywood"
“There has to be a change in policing”: The unfinished business of criminal justice reform
Elias Isquith
Reformers are winning but much remains unfinished, New York Civil Liberties Union's Donna Lieberman tells Salon
“Trainwreck”: Amy Schumer’s a comic genius, but this lumpy Judd Apatow rom-com doesn’t do her justice
Andrew O'Hehir
Comedy's feminist czarina tries to subvert the rom-com -- and gets upstaged by Tilda Swinton and LeBron James
“Clueless” and the end of Gen X: How Cher Horowitz taught us to stop worrying and embrace millennial optimism, post-racial fantasy and the 1 percent
Amanda Ann Klein
20 years ago, Amy Heckerling's updated "Emma" flipped the page from Gen X angst to millennial optimism
Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred
Charles McCain
Myths about the "Lost Cause," never mentioning race, came from our schools, from everywhere. Time to smash them
Satanists are masters at trolling conservatives — just ask Megyn Kelly
Amanda Marcotte
If conservatives were smart, they'd ignore Satanists, but they just can't seem to help themselves from engaging
Scott Walker’s “clarification” of his anti-gay Boy Scout remarks is mind-numblingly stupid
Sophia Tesfaye
This is supposed to make things better?
The right’s despicable new obsession: Fox News, Matt Drudge and Donald Trump’s fear-mongering is doomed to backfire
Heather Digby Parton
The Donald, along with much of the right-wing media, have seized on a tragic murder to fan xenophobic flames
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