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Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock knows how to please a woman
Michelle Jaworski
The star of the eponymous series addresses his character's apparent asexuality -- and engages in a bit of fan fic
Mark Twain’s democratic ideal: How truth, laughter defeat “sweet-smelling, sugar-coated lies”
Lewis H. Lapham
"A man at play with freedoms of his mind, believing allegiance to the truth and not the flag rescues democracy"
New question in Texas: Can Davis survive defeat?
Will Weissert, Paul J. Weber
“Have we forgotten how beautiful it is to be on fire for justice?”
Patrick L. Smith
No matter the country, our foreign policy seems to make the same mistake over and over. What's behind this pattern?
Rick Santorum’s personal agony: How his religious politics got sidelined
Heather Digby Parton
A few years ago, he was his party's presidential runner-up -- now, Rick Santorum is far from its heir apparent
I’m not “that creepy guy from the Internet”: How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name
Arthur Chu
I've been that bitter, lonely gamer looking for someone to blame. And I'm devastated that it's come to this
America’s growing society of fear: Paranoia, conspiracy theories and the “rise” of ebola
Lynn Stuart Parramore
America is not on the verge of an ebola epidemic — so why does everyone think it is?
How police brutality changed me: “He crushed his knee into my neck. I could hardly breathe”
Jessie Sholl
I was on the ground before I knew it, knee to my neck. But in an age of social media, would it have even happened?
“The Great Invisible”: The BP oil disaster and our fossil-fuel addiction
Andrew O'Hehir
A mesmerizing documentary explores the effects of the huge BP oil spill -- and why we're so eager to forget it
Why we need narrators: “Jane the Virgin” has the best voice-over on TV
Sonia Saraiya
It's the cleverest voice-over since "Arrested Development," and evidence of how important narration is to a show
Thomas Frank: “We are such losers”
Thomas Frank
Liberals yearn to believe in post-ideological blank slates -- and get disappointed every time. Will we ever learn?
How “Archie” went from dull to daring: The world’s tamest comic series is now our most groundbreaking
Mark Peters
Archie used to be the safest, squarest comic book franchise out there. But in the past few years, something changed
This is the infectious disease you should be worried about
Lindsay Abrams
The World Health Organization warns that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a global threat
From Bush to Obama: American exceptionalism is a plague on our collective conscience
David Bromwich
The same myopia has afflicted both administrations. It's time we confront the truth about ourselves as a nation
GOP’s maniacal new vote scheme: What wingnuts are hatching to keep the “riff-raff” away
Heather Digby Parton
Paranoia reaches a fever pitch in Arizona, where the right has violent nightmares -- and an absurd response in mind
The 4 weirdest things we learned about sex this week
Katie Halper
Your brain craves intercourse, boning in the ocean can be extremely dangerous and other essential life lessons
Phil Hartman biographer on the toxic marriage that killed the comedy legend
Prachi Gupta
Reading Mike Thomas' bio of Hartman, nothing will prepare you for the horrific ending you already know is coming
Escape from slavery: The harrowing story behind an African-American intellectual’s break for freedom
Ezra Greenspan
William Wells Brown became a leading black thinker and speaker of the 19th century. First he needed his freedom
Iowa’s Tea Party disaster: Joni Ernst’s shocking ideas about the welfare state
Elias Isquith
How the wingnut potentially on the verge of joining the Senate uses shoddy history to justify her radical beliefs
Wife-beating judge digs deeper: Why Mark Fuller should be in prison
Brad Friedman
America's most heinous judge may get to return to the bench. But here's why stopping him is a total necessity
7 disastrous possible outcomes of our new war with ISIS
Peter Van Buren
Worst-case scenario: America’s pan-Middle Eastern war marches into its third decade with no end in sight
Rick Perry’s demented world order: Why this man can get nowhere near the White House
Heather Digby Parton
The presidential wannabe went overseas to tell the world what he thinks America's role in it is. Brace yourself
The sneaky feminism of Showtime’s “The Affair”
Hayley Krischer
Based on the promos, I expected a typical tale of woman as crazy homewrecker. I couldn't have been more wrong
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