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Americans won’t befriend different-looking people
Ryan O'Hanlon
A new survey finds that we still largely surround ourselves with members of our own race
Take that, boomers!: Today’s young adults could literally save our lives
Brian Beutler
Millennials aren't selfish and lazy. They just may save our nation's healthcare system
My boyfriend stole my puppy
Cary Tennis
He was a junkie trying to stay clean. I thought I could help him. Then he started using again
I mother with my brain, not just my body
Alissa Quart
The emphasis on "natural" motherhood made me feel like an outsider -- I connect with my daughter through culture
I don’t need an app to measure my sex life
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Thanks, Spreadsheets, but there's more to good sex than how loud you are and how often you do it
“To the End of June”: Stories from foster care
Laura Miller
A writer explores the inner lives of America's lost children and the people trying to save them
Our last legal heroes?: Fighting to kill the death penalty
Evan J. Mandery
Before Democrats gave up capital punishment as an issue, the best lawyers in the country fought to end it
Israel approves nearly 1,200 more settlement homes
Karin Laub, Mohammed Daraghmeh
Israel will also release 26 long-held Palestinian security prisoners
How to battle eviction: That’s how you fight the bank!
Laura Gottesdiener
When a 65-year-old woman couldn't discuss her mortgage with officials, she decided to occupy the bank's office
Generation X gets really old: How do slackers have a midlife crisis?
Sara Scribner
Gutted by the economy, shipwrecked by nostalgia, Gen X stares down a midlife crisis. Winona Ryder can't save it
The worst shark attack ever
Natasha Geiling
An account of the aftermath of the USS Indianapolis wreck, the worst maritime disaster in U.S. naval history
North Carolina’s shocking history of sterilization
Belle Boggs
Forced sterilization was the law in 32 U.S. states, and actually inspired the Nazis. We're just learning the truth
The Civil War rages on in Brooklyn
Jesse Marx
Armed with muskets and gunpowder, members of the 14th Regiment Brooklyn Company fight to preserve our nation's past
When a TED talk is a propaganda tool
Benjamin Carlson
In June, venture capitalist Eric X. Li used the platform to extoll the many virtues of China's authoritarian regime
The monstrous serpent was real!
Ben Shattuck
Did the Gloucester fisherman see a massive tuna, or a serpent? And what are we conjuring, when we imagine the sea?
Comedy’s last taboo
Emma Garman
In a landscape where being offensive is almost expected, one topic is off limits — but maybe not for long
Everything you know about drugs is wrong
Tessie Swope Castillo
Author Carl Hart says we focus too much on drugs' dangers – and not enough on how racism affects drug policy
Fiction: “Americca” by Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender
In a brilliant new story, the masterful Aimee Bender imagines a household where disturbing gifts just keep arriving
Not everything’s a shark “attack”!
Jason Bittel
Scientists ask the media to choose their words more carefully in order to minimize exaggerated public fear
TED talks are the worst
Carin Moonin
My friends can't get enough of them, but they remind me of every boring conference I've ever attended
Richard Dawkins does it again: New Atheism’s Islamophobia problem
Nathan Lean
Richard Dawkins goes on another ignorant Twitter rampage. The ugly underbelly of his worldview is anti-Muslim hate
The Tea Party’s paranoid aesthetic
Kim Messick
To understand the powerful appeal of the movement to many of its adherents, a narrative history is first required
Obama: Snowden is not a patriot
Alex Seitz-Wald
In a press conference today, the president tries to win back Americans' trust, says the leaker is no proud American
U.S. sharply escalates Yemen drone war
Associated Press
Yemenis are increasingly scared of the strikes, which are often based on imperfect intelligence
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