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Here comes the future: We’re making robots that feel!
Diane Ackerman
It's not sci-fi: Meet an amazing professor building creative, curious, moody, quick-witted and multitalented robots
Latina, at the white, male New York Times: “Why are people thinking it’s OK to say racist sh-t in front of me?”
Daisy Hernández
I learned the power of asking questions, and the power of an institution. Mostly I learned how to talk to white men
Retweet me or I might die! Email, smartphones and the eternal correctness of Louis C.K.
Sara Scribner
Nonstop distraction and a need for instant gratification made one man quit his job, and mourn world before iPhones
Secrets of the crematory: “Hey, come in here and help me get this big guy on the table”
Caitlin Doughty
You won't be there to realize what's happening, or what the mortician is saying. Here's what you will be missing
Rape, domestic violence and football: The last battle for American masculinity
Andrew O'Hehir
Beneath the freakout over frats, football and feminism lies a yearning for the lost world of 20th-century manhood
Tea Party nut’s fact-check fiasco: Tom Cotton’s hilarious “farming” defense
Jim Newell
Tom Cotton embarrassed himself with a farm bill ad. Even more embarrassing is his response to its critics
Bill Simmons is lying to himself: Why I don’t believe his rant
Steve Almond
Simmons is just the latest example in ESPN's long history of complicated conflicts of interest
Grisly murder ignored: How we failed Angelia Mangum and Tjhisha Ball
Ian Blair
Two black teenage girls were killed and left on the side of a road in Florida. Why doesn't America care? (Updated)
Roger Ebert was right: Free speech, Twitter and the Holocaust denier protected by the University of Illinois
Arthur Goldwag
At the Univ. of Illinois, the future film critic wrote wisely on free speech. Too bad the school hasn't listened
“I know that feeling of despair”: Charles Blow on his searing memoir of pain, doubt and redemption
Elias Isquith
New York Times columnist Charles Blow tells Salon how his new book tries to reach those who feel hated or forgotten
The colossal government failure that obstructed a potentially major medical breakthrough
Tom Shroder
Once upon a time, researchers hoped to explore the promise of ecstasy for treating PTSD. Then the feds stepped in
Let’s debate: A David Bowie critic and an obsessive battle over maddening brilliance of “Lodger”
Rick Moody, Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley and Rick Moody on Bowie's 1979 masterpiece, and the way pop music mutates and deepens over time
“It was so frustrating not to have an outlet”: Post-“Tell Me More,” Michel Martin talks Ferguson
Prachi Gupta
Now that "Tell Me More" is off the air, Martin continues the dialogue with a series of live shows for NPR
Nick Cave’s dark, strange and sometimes hilarious odyssey
Andrew O'Hehir
The Aussie post-punk pioneer's life and career inspires the haunting, revealing music doc "20,000 Days on Earth"
“Very sexy and a bit alarming”: Sarah Waters on her historical thrillers
Laura Miller
Waters' novel of murder and forbidden lesbian passion could be this year's "Goldfinch"
Watch a never-before-seen “SNL” sketch starring Nasim Pedrad as Aziz Ansari
Prachi Gupta
Last time she played the comedian on "SNL," critics took note of her darkened skin
Really? “The View” debates Kanye and George W. Bush — in 2014
Daniel D'Addario
Rosie fights with Nicolle Wallace over, of all things, Kanye's 2005 remarks. Is this the news?
I couldn’t finish my brother’s story
Will Boast
I was a teenager when mom died slowly, then my brother, abruptly, in a car wreck. It was too much loss for fiction
New York Times begins Ray Rice article in the most offensive way possible
Joanna Rothkopf
An article by Michael Powell used unsavory imagery to discuss domestic violence
John Twelve Hawks: “New surveillance states have placed us in an invisible prison”
John Twelve Hawks
Is it possible to go untracked in this new digital dystopia? It's gotten harder -- but here's how I've done it
Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, “having it all” and true liberation
Laurie Penny
We're told we can "have it all" -- as long as that means marriage, babies, a finance job, shoes and exhaustion
Savage capitalism: Inside the booming market for serial killers’ personal effects
Dan Shewan
"Murderabilia" peddlers like Serialkillersink.net give shoppers access to items mainstream sites refuse to sell
Racism and the founding of the GOP: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the real history of the Republican Party
Paul D. Escott
Republicans hide behind "the party of Lincoln" to deflect racism charges. The party's history is more complicated
How “Saturday Night Live” got soft
Daniel D'Addario
Here's hoping that the new season of "SNL" is a little bit sharper-edged
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