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Dylann Roof may have been regular commenter on neo-Nazi website

Keegan Hankes
New findings suggest the church shooter's ties to the white supremacist movement run deeper than originally thought

Dylann Roof’s racist manifesto: A funhouse mirror reflection of right-wing American politics

Scott Timberg
Some of Roof's online rantings are completely nuts — but the roots of some of his ideas are queasily familiar

African American scholar: Whites should be able to use the n-word in contextually appropriate circumstances, just like Obama did

Scott Eric Kaufman
John McWhorter noted that Obama didn't call someone a "n*gger," he merely discussed its usage

After Charleston, Walmart dumps the Confederate flag: Can they stop selling guns next?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Retailers finally turn their backs on the symbol, but it feels like too little, too late

Ana Sofia Peláez: “Food is a way of telling our history”

Ana Sofia Peláez as told to Wesley Yiin
The famed Cuban food writer reflects on food, family and the Cuban table as our Trust Me On This series returns

What we can’t afford to forget about Rachel Dolezal: A master class in white victimology

Chauncey DeVega
As Rachel Dolezal's story recedes into the background, we must remember its most important lessons

Obama shines on “WTF”: Maron’s intimate podcast could be a game-changer for American politics

Sean Cannon
The medium strips away much of the performance we have come to expect from politicians—human connection follows

One insane Fox News segment shows just how far conservatives will go to downplay racism

Scott Eric Kaufman
Richard Fowler and Erick Erickson's conversation about race addressed every subject except for, well, race

The racist insanity of “Meet the Press”: How can Chuck Todd be so oblivious?

Jack Mirkinson
The Sunday morning show aired a gun violence segment yesterday that exclusively featured black shooters

A liberal in the South: I didn’t mean to scream at that woman about abortion rights, but I was not in control

Catherine Landis
I tried to have a civil conversation about abortion with someone who called herself "pro-life." Here's how it went

The surprising religious roots of American environmentalism

Lauren Sutton
An expert debunks the preconception that conservation and religion are inherently hostile toward each other

Scott Walker goes Todd Akin: Why Republicans get rape so embarrassingly wrong

Amanda Marcotte
The Wisconsin governor holds rape victims in contempt. It's a party-wide epidemic, with no sign of abating

“If you think, you stink”: From “Toy Story” to “Inside Out,” how the creative geniuses at Pixar bring new things into being

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
A maze, climbing a mountain blindfolded, skiing -- the Pixar team's mental models for their miraculous creations

“Stage fright”: Mark Twain coined the term and gave Tom Sawyer a bad case of it

Sara Solovitch
Everyone from Laurence Olivier to Pastor Rick Warren has suffered from stage fright. Here's how it works

“America floats between modernity & collapse”: What Japan can teach the U.S. about averting disaster

David Masciotra
Historian Morris Berman tells Salon about the striking social and historical contrast between the two world powers

My father’s medical mystery

N. West Moss
Something was very wrong with Dad, something he couldn't describe because it was something wrong with his own mind

“How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”

Jorja Leap
In Watts, I worked with men trying to rebuild their lives while also being there for their kids. It was inspiring

Jamie Dimon is poisoning the economy: Why too-big-to-fail bankers are hazardous to our health

Lynn Stuart Parramore
Boston College professor Ed Kane reflects on the dangerous risk-taking of our nation's financial giants

Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof and the tragic history of white America’s love-hate relationship with “blackness”

Andrew O'Hehir
White America's pathological obsession with blackness -- in one case as farce and another as unbearable tragedy

I don’t have to be a perfect dad: The gift I’m giving myself this Father’s Day

Steve Almond
I worry too much about failing my kids and raising them exactly right. We all need the freedom to be "good enough"

You won’t steal our music anymore: The fraction of a cent that saved the major labels

Stephen Witt
Watching rap videos with his grandson, a vilified music executive had an aha moment that changed everything

Of course Richard Dawkins comes to Tim Hunt’s defense: Protesting sexism isn’t a “baying witch-hunt,” except in his own mind

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The increasingly irrelevant author speaks speaks out

Wall Street Journal: Please ignore the Confederate flag on the South Carolina capitol — institutionalized racism “no longer exists” in the South

Scott Eric Kaufman
Dylann Roof murdered nine black people not because of racism, but some "problem that defies explanation"

Watch Tina Fey and Amy Schumer smooch at the Peabodys

Anna Silman
After Fey presents Schumer with her award
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