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Exorcism is back! Meet the mavericks who will teach you how to cure demonic possession
Katie Engelhart
Do-it-yourself exorcism schools, some aligned with actual Vatican guidelines, are on the rise. Is it really 2014?
The monster myth: What I learned from seeing my wife’s killer in court
Thomas Meagher
The man who murdered and raped my wife wasn't some inhuman "other." We need to understand the culture that made him
“Blue Ruin”: A bloody, brilliant revenge thriller
Andrew O'Hehir
A likable loner goes on a rampage in Jeremy Saulnier's "Blue Ruin," an unforgettable yarn of crime and punishment
5 ways American policies make us lonely, anxious and antisocial
Lynn Stuart Parramore
Research shows that today's college students are less empathic than generations past. They're not the only ones
A black girl’s constant fear: Why I thought I’d never live to see 33
Brittney Cooper
It may not be front-page news, but Relisha Rudd is missing -- and it reminds me of the violence of my own childhood
Alaska Republicans propose a law that lets Alaska Republicans tell doctors what counts as a medical emergency
Katie McDonough
Alaska lawmakers want to play doctor in order to restrict abortion access, but many in the state are crying foul
An atheist’s secret mysticism
Laura Miller
Celebrated author Barbara Ehrenreich recalls her strange, life-changing experience in a small desert town
Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer
Barbara Ehrenreich
My scornful atheism slowly disappeared -- but not my sense that human freedom depends on being free from spirits
My motherhood martyr routine
Cara McDonough
Raising kids is hard. But am I guilty of making it harder than it really is?
Jayson Blair, Judy Miller and the shrinking New York Times
Andrew O'Hehir
A straightforward documentary unpacks the Gray Lady's 2003 plagiarism scandal, but the real story is much bigger
Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand”
Thomas Frank
Belief, Richard Dawkins, Jesus and the minimum wage, "The Fountainhead" and more, in our exclusive conversation
Mental illness, protracted war: Making sense of the Fort Hood shooting
Natasha Lennard
Shooter Ivan Lopez, an Iraq vet, had sought help for depression before his shooting spree and suicide
Is being thin more deadly than being obese?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A new study reveals the dangers of a low BMI
Nate Silver got you down? Why his forecast is more nuanced than you think
Simon Maloy
To halt their coming doom, Democrats have a very specific -- and politically helpful -- provision they should tout
Rikers Island horror story: Mentally ill veteran “basically baked to death” in NYC prison
Jake Pearson
A homeless man arrested last month for trespassing on a frigid night was later found dead in his jail cell
5 reasons to consider a no-strings-attached, basic income for all Americans
Lynn Stuart Parramore
Half of all Canadians want it. The Swiss have had a referendum on it. The idea's not as far-fetched as it sounds
10 shameful ways the United States is failing to preserve basic human rights
Jodie Gummow
A new Human Rights Watch reports reveals the US fares very poorly in safeguarding the rights of its own population
The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong
Amy Kenyon
The history of nostalgia reveals so much more than what we see on "Mad Men." Why does Hollywood get it so wrong?
Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker
David A. Rosenbaum
Charles Darwin got more than science right. Evolution also explains why we get it on
“Girls” recap: “I didn’t mean to make your life ridiculous and all about sex”
Neil Drumming
This week, we discuss characters who talk like the show's critics, and Dunham's take on mortality
Losing my son to drugs
Diannee Carden Glenn
The death of my child brought a pain like no other, and made me question every parenting decision I've made
Reparations flow the wrong way: What the right doesn’t understand about slavery
Greg Grandin
Hundreds of years of slave labor shaped western society, and it's still claiming new victims
Great literary husbands: The men who supported genius
Laura Miller
It's time we acknowledged those rare men who helped, rather than hindered, brilliant female writers
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