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How to talk to kids about religion: Spiritual multiculturalism is absolutely essential

Lisa Miller Ph.D
Before kindergarten, kids are curious about spiritual expression and hungry to learn. Here's how to teach them

“Perilously close to propaganda”: How Fox News shilled for Iraq War, and Jon Stewart returned sanity

Charles L. Ponce De Leon
"Fox Effect" pushed American media to get in line and back the Iraq War. Only two comedy shows had guts to resist

“We fostered something chaotic and irresponsible”: Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista & the echoes of a tragedy

Ellen O'Connell
One year ago tomorrow, a young man opened fire in southern California. In the time since, has anything changed?

In the age of Amazon, it takes celebrity to launch an indie bookstore

Scott Timberg
Literary culture needs benign rich people. But celebrity authors won't save the U.S. bookstore

This is your brain on Whiteness: The invisible psychology of white American ignorance explained

Chauncey DeVega
The contrast in media narratives about Baltimore and Waco are undeniable—but many white Americans are blind to them

7 times women shut down sexist reporters

Colin Gorenstein
Melissa McCarthy demanded "Would you do this to a man?" Here are some other great women who are sick of your shit

The Christian right’s shocking conquest: Why religious moderates have disappeared from America

Edward McClelland
While the number of religious Americans is in decline, evangelical membership is growing. Here's what it means

Rebel Wilson lied to us about her age and history because we asked her to

Colin Gorenstein
Just another day of being a female in Hollywood

When lapdogs rolled over for Bush: The mainstream media’s laughable Iraq hypocrisy

Eric Boehlert
Leading Republicans are rightfully being pilloried for defending the war. Now it's the columnists' turn

7 ideas completely lost on people who are “fiscally conservative but socially liberal”

Greta Christina
It's a popular refrain among "centrists." The truth is that social and fiscal issues are inextricably bound

Up all night in Mexico City: “Güeros,” a gorgeous, ecstatic slacker odyssey, is one of the best movies of the year

Andrew O'Hehir
Tragic, romantic and hilarious, this late '90s Mexican rebel odyssey is 2015's foreign-language breakthrough

Kim Kardashian is not unstoppable: How to beat flawless TV celebs in the book sales game

Laura Miller
Unlike reality show stars, YouTubers like Zoella and Connor Franta are, in fact, here to make friends—and get paid

Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem
A longtime fan sits down with Gornick to discuss her much-anticipated new memoir, "The Odd Woman and the City"

Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over

Joan Walsh
Watching presidents salute Dave while spoofing Jerry Ford shows how outrage has been sublimated with irony

“Modern liberalism is a wrecking ball”: Milwaukee sheriff tells Hannity liberals celebrate “subhuman” black culture

Scott Eric Kaufman
Sean Hannity is thrilled he's found a black cop who will spout Fox News' ideology like a hand-puppet

Our jobs just make us sad: How the 1 percent crushed America’s spirit and drained our souls

Will Davies
We are in the midst of an unhappiness epidemic. Fixing it means laying the blame where it belongs: Our elites

David Letterman says goodnight with sincere thanks, fond memories and a few final great jokes

Sonia Saraiya
Letterman's final show bid farewell to his legendary late night presence, from edgy youngster to elder statesman

The problem with “cool” single women

Sara Eckel
Kate Bolick's new book bravely attempts to reclaim the word "spinster." Here's what it still fails to acknowledge

8 chilling new revelations about policing in Baltimore

Terrell Jermaine Starr
Six officers have been charged in the death of Freddie Gray. At least one has a history of abusing his authority

The unbearable whiteness of the Letterman farewells: Let this truly be the end of a show-business era

Scott Timberg
George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Eddie Vedder, Bob Dylan — Letterman's final shows don't really look like showbiz today

Beyonce’s “champagne-gate” is dumb: No, she wasn’t pouring your tuition into a hot tub

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Beyonce's being taken to task for the ultimate 1 percent statement -- by people who don't understand the 1 percent

Amy Schumer skewers street harassment and our cultural obsession with butts

Colin Gorenstein
In the sketch "Swanks," Schumer raves about booty-enhancing pants that get men on the streets to holler

Sexy “dad bods” are not progress: Fetishizing beer bellies only fat-shames others

Rachel Kramer Bussel
If the choice is just Zac Efron or Seth Rogen, we are leaving a lot of guys out of the conversation

O’Reilly on Waco bike gang murders: Here’s everything that’s wrong with how the media covers race and violence

Joan Walsh
On Fox, cops and now biker gangs get to have a few “bad apples” who cause trouble. African-Americans? Not so much
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