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5 demented Evangelical teachings that enabled Josh Duggar’s sex crimes

Vyckie Garrison
If the Duggars weren't so fixated on sin and repentance, maybe they could have gotten their son the help he needed

The Internet can’t replace libraries: Why they matter more than ever in the age of Google

Amien Essif
Federal funding for libraries is down nearly 40 percent since 2000. Our democracy may never wholly recover

Josh Duggar and the Christian right’s purity lie

Sarah Posner
The Duggars have long marketed themselves as exemplars of wholesome, biblical living. It was always a bill of goods

The other “Girls”: Gritty indie “Heaven Knows What” shows the flip side of Lena Dunham’s New York

Andrew O'Hehir
A wrenching junkie odyssey with intense hipster cred and very little audience exemplifies indie film's slow fade

Segregationists never went away: We just call them “small-government conservatives” now

Brittney Cooper
Black freedom & opportunity in America has always required the very federal intervention the right wants to destroy

From the Duggars to Honey Boo Boo: How TLC became the most controversial channel on television

Anna Silman
UPDATED — The "19 Kids and Counting" scandal is the latest in the network's controversies

Ann Coulter: Mexican culture “is obviously deficient,” and Hispanics are “not black, so drop the racism crap”

Scott Eric Kaufman
"If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, I don't know what to tell you"

Bernie Sanders is the 1 percent’s worst nightmare: How he promises to upend America’s oligarchy

Jim Newell
2016's socialist candidate wants to use the tax code to transfer wealth downward. Are you terrified yet?

Cameron Crowe’s “Aloha” under fire for erasing Hawaii’s diversity

Anna Silman
An Asian American watchdog group called the film "an insult to the diverse culture and fabric of Hawaii"

The 5 most appalling “Christian” defenses of the Duggars

Michael Arria
One creationist activist points to bags of molecules, while The Blaze somehow argues progressives made Josh do it

How the Duggar family’s over-the-top beliefs created an environment that fostered child sex abuse

Jenny Kutner
The problem is not just individuals' willful ignorance -- it's a culture that blames victims and protects rapists

Josh Duggar didn’t make a “mistake” — he’s going to get away with sexual assault

Jenny Kutner
If we accept the family's minimizing language, are we endorsing the Duggar son's crimes?

The right’s big history lie: Reagan, Disney, Vietnam and the war to redefine America

Andrew Hartman
The battle over history is the battle to define America's story. This Memorial Day, it is more important than ever

The ’90s were absolute hell: Remembering the decade when the fringe went berserk

Ralph Young
Timothy McVeigh. The Unabomber. Waco. Ruby Ridge. The list goes on and on (and on and on ...)

The military is buying patriotism: A Memorial Day nightmare about Pentagon budgets — and veterans used as a sideshow

David Masciotra
This holiday, let's tell the truth: We remember our fallen veterans by not making new ones

“You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire

Laura Miller
The author of "Pym" talks about his new novel, his love-hate relationship with Twitter and being a black nerd

Cancer’s terrifying genetic superpowers revealed

Dawn Field, Neil Davies
Science has allowed us to look at genes more closely than ever. And cancerous genes show us something remarkable

Education reformers have it all wrong: Accountability from above never works, great teaching always does

Jal Mehta
Common Core or No Child Left Behind -- reformers always try to manage change from above. It fails & hurts our kids

Jesus is a political prisoner: An American history of Christianity’s corruption

Sean Illing
Nowadays, the Christian right is a fixture of the political world. But it hasn't always been that way

A lifetime of wandering in the dark

Clark Strand
Even in the city I learned I could cultivate darkness as a state of mind -- pull the plug on a billion-watt culture

Karen Allen’s brilliant comeback: A “Raiders of the Lost Ark” star forsakes Hollywood for a brilliant, blue-collar film

Bill Curry
Hollywood has turned its back on America. Karen Allen turned her back on Hollywood. In a new film, all's forgiven

137 shots, no justice: Cleveland protests as another cop goes free

Mark Gillispie
A judge can't determine who fired the shots which killed two unarmed black men, so an officer is acquitted

Ryan O’Connell on Thought Catalog, trolling & the Millennial angst tipping point: “The more you write about your personal life, the less you have one”

Jenny Kutner
The former Thought Catalog star tells Salon about his new book, "I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves"
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