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America’s appalling holidays
Sarah Seltzer
From Loyalty Day to Confederate Memorial Day, a trip through our country's more disconcerting celebrations
Is it ethical to drive stick?
David Sirota
More drivers are buying manual transmissions -- a boon for auto sentimentalists but bad news for the environment
Child acting’s new golden age
Michael Barthel
From Chloe Grace Moretz to "Shameless," kids aren't just getting more roles -- they're actually good. What changed?
“Birth control doesn’t matter”
Irin Carmon
A new survey reveals just how ignorant young people are about contraception and pregnancy
Various matters
Glenn Greenwald
Causes of Yemeni terrorism, Obama and marriage equality, lawlessness in Libya, and the 2012 election
Obama’s finest hour
Gary Kamiya
For once, the president who ran on a platform of hope and change lived up to his ideals
Mitt, the prep-school sadist
Joan Walsh
His attacks on gay students and disabled teachers reveal a preppy, entitled cruelty. Not remembering makes it worse
I’m too smart for this job
Cary Tennis
What happened to all my "great potential"? Where is my fabulous career?
A vital (and unlearned) lesson from Julius Caesar
Glenn Greenwald
When a band of Roman traitors was uncovered, he urged they not be killed due to the precedent it would set
Ready, set, borrow!
Andrew Leonard
Short memory department: Americans are piling up debt like gangbusters, again
It’s not quite morning in America, but …
Steve Kornacki
How do you sell your presidency as a success when anxiety and pessimism are rampant?
Partisan death jam
Lucy McKeon
The two parties aren't just making progress impossible, they're destroying our political system. An expert explains
My dad’s 30-year coming out
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
I thought my father kept secrets because he was gay. Turns out all parents have a walled-off life -- and that's OK
Why the Cherokee story is a problem for Warren
Steve Kornacki
The specter of affirmative action plays into the caricature that her opponents are trying to create
Global warming hits home
Bill McKibben
After a year of freakish and destructive weather, Americans are finally waking up to the dangers of climate change
The NYPD May Day siege
Natasha Lennard
Pundits can argue back and forth over what Occupy's May Day achieved, but I just can't get over the police presence
The color-blind scales of justice?
Eve Gerber
Law scholar Kenneth Mack explains America's warring legal ideals of equality and exclusion
Near death, rehashed
PZ Myers
Beauregard's reaction to out-of-body science criticisms proves my original point
America’s failing powerhouse
Toby Ash
Michael Lind traces our rise to economic dominance, and why we need more government involvement to revive it
Blood, gore, tourism: The ax murderer who saved a small town
Nick Kowalczyk
100 years ago, someone killed 8 people in an Iowa home. Can unsolved brutality revive a dying town?
Joseph McCarthy reborn
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
GOP Rep. Allen West told supporters that 78 to 81 Democrats in Congress are "members of the Communist Party"
Near-death, distorted
PZ Myers
Taking aim at a recent Salon story about the science of out-of-body experiences
Growing up, made viral
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A time-lapse video of a maturing girl reaches millions -- and appeals to our sanitized vision of childhood
Information hoarders
Eve Gerber
A Harvard history professor explains how human societies evolved to collect, organize and use data
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