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Philip Eil is a freelance journalist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Follow him on Twitter at @phileil

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Hooking up as a core requirement: Casual sex in college isn’t optional anymore, “it’s an imperative”

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Jeff Chang (Picador/Jeremy Keith)

We’re at peak “white racial apocalypse”: The enduring toxic myths fueling Obama backlash, “all lives matter” and Donald Trump

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John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”

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Sam Polk (Danika Singfield)

“There are not a lot of happy people on Wall Street”: Sam Polk opens up about greed, wealth and toxic masculinity

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It’s a “touchy” subject: “Sticky: A (Self) Love Story” wants to get us talking about solo sex

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Robert Blake in "In Cold Blood"

“In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer”

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H.P. Lovecraft (Wikimedia)

The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of H.P. Lovecraft

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The shocking news about government secrecy that should have every American worried

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“Climate denial does best in the dark”: A Democratic senator breaks down the GOP’s global-warming clustermuck

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Lincoln Chafee (AP/Steven Senne)

Meet 2016’s weirdest candidate: The party-switching, O’Reilly-dueling former Governor Lincoln Chafee

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John Wilkes Booth, surrounded by accomplices (clockwise, from left) Lewis Payne, David Herold, George Atzerodt. (Library Of Congress)

Lincoln’s assassination: Terrorist plot or crackpot conspiracy?

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Vincent "Buddy" Cianci (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

“A crazed man… a lunatic!” Why ex-con, pasta sauce salesman, former mayor Buddy Cianci is back for more

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