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James Carroll on disarming the memory of Jesus: “America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does”
Michael Schulson
The brilliant scholar James Carroll on anti-Semitism, Pope Francis and how liberals can be honest believers
“Serial” demanded no answers: Why Sarah Koenig was smart to embrace uncertainty
Arthur Chu
Hopefully the podcast has helped the rest of us come to terms with uncertainty, too
Bill O’Reilly: Black people should wear “Don’t get pregnant at 14” T-shirts
Joanna Rothkopf
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Sean Hannity, federal judge?! How a wacky right-wing jurist just disqualified himself
Simon Maloy
The judge who declared Obama's immigration action unconstitutional borrowed his arguments from a Fox News crank
8 horrific “cures” for mental illness through the ages
Larry Schwartz
Hydrotherapy, chemically induced seizures and lobotomy are just a few ghastly treatments that were once commonplace
D’Angelo’s sultry return: Why we needed a “Black Messiah” right now
Priscilla Ward
Every historical movement has had a soundtrack--this is ours
The right’s grossest race lie: Delusional conservatives and the truth about MLK
Paul Rosenberg
Post-Ferguson and Staten Island, the right's again claiming MLK would be on their side. Let's put the lie to rest
The truth about the New Republic: Kinsley, Krauthammer, Oliver North and a liberal magazine’s demented war on liberalism
Eric Alterman
TNR spent the '80s in bed with Reagan and Ollie North, backing tax cuts, proxy wars -- and screwing liberalism hard
“Saturday Night Live’s” edgiest night: The inside story of Richard Pryor’s brilliant evening
Scott Saul
Lorne Michaels battled to bring Pryor to "SNL." That night produced classic bits, and long-simmering racial tension
The Slits’ Viv Albertine: “I can be older and still live by those punk maxims “
Marc Spitz
The Slits guitarist talks about punk-rock glory, life after -- and finding her voice again
Dick Cheney’s dark victory: Torture and the demise of American democracy
Andrew O'Hehir
Can we quit pretending torture is some huge aberration? It fits into a larger pattern of America's imperial decay
Grant Morrison’s “multiversity”: His new comics universe doesn’t include a single straight white male
Scott Thill
The king of DC comics on his latest series, the lack of diversity in superheroes, and the new "Wonder Woman"
Beverly Johnson says Cosby drugged her
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The former supermodel reveals a now familiar encounter
4 dangerous myths about rape, debunked
Amanda Marcotte
Fallout from Rolling Stone's bungled UVA story reveals how alarmingly misinformed we are as a culture
The 12 most illuminating tidbits from Chris Rock’s Twitter Q&A
Sarah Gray
His secret to maintaining his good looks is one for the ages
Senator: USAID’s Cuba hip-hop project ‘reckless’
Desmond Butler, Michael Weissenstein, Laura Wides-munoz, Andrea Rodriguez
Lena Dunham’s biggest lesson: Why survivors’ stories alone will not end our rape crisis
Katie McDonough
From Dunham to Jackie, victims are backlash targets because they're the ones speaking out. Time to share the burden
“Girls” with baggage: Will the Lena Dunham controversy affect the experience of watching her show?
Erin Keane
The line between Lena and Hannah could become even more blurred in the eyes of viewers
From Robin Williams, to Ferguson: This was 2014 according to social media
Sarah Gray
The the ice bucket challenge, the Olympics, the World Cup, elections and more memorialized on Facebook
“You need to be educated”: The problem with the Republican search for evidence of racism
Joanna Rothkopf
Sean Hannity and Tavis Smiley debated the presence of racism in Michael Brown and Eric Garner's deaths
“I’m an unreliable narrator”: Why Lena Dunham’s Barry mistake is bad news for all memoirists
Erin Keane
Calling yourself "unreliable" is a fun rhetorical trick in fiction, but harder when writing about sexual assault
Lena Dunham reportedly “tweaking” her book after legal threat
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dunham's woes -- and the Rolling Stone fiasco -- show the holes in editorial oversight
James O’Keefe’s “victim” farce: A con artist’s vile new attempt to raise cash
Heather Digby Parton
Playing on racial tensions in post-Katrina Louisiana, behold the low-life's plan to profit off Ferguson and Garner
The 5 most insidious conspiracy theories of 2014
Cliff Weathers
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