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I will say it up front: I don’t think there’s anything wrong, per se, with Sheryl Sandberg and the Lean In organization rolling out a program...
This story has been percolating in the blogs and liberal media for awhile, and now NPR has done a piece on it. A student at the...
Hat tip to Erik Loomis for linking to this whiny piece by Andrew O’Hagan in the New York Times style magazine. O’Hagan is mad by the...
Ah, what is it with Republicans thinking that 7th-grade level attempts at “gotcha” are some kind of genius politicking? A Tennessee state Senate committee did not...
It’s super frustrating that the result of the Department of Justice investigation into Ferguson, MO is going to end up mostly being a report. An incredibly...
At Vox, Jenée Desmond-Harris has a really great piece debunking the “acting white” myth, the widespread belief that racial disparities in school achievement are due to...
After an atheist named Craig Hicks of Chapel Hill, NC murdered Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Deah Shaddy Barakat, an immediate struggle broke out amongst atheists like...
It’s time to conclude that being anti-science is not just a selective thing on the right anymore, but is becoming an ideological position. Science denialism amongst conservatives...
One of the most irritating side effects of Gamergate is that it’s caused so many male critics, when writing about the issue of feminism and gaming,...
Emily Shire and Ben Collins at The Daily Beast have written a disturbing article about how the fandom around the podcast Serial has resulted, with an almost...
Hat tip to Atrios for this Bleeding Cool article by Rich Johnston about something that bugs the ever-living shit out of me, too: The crappy girlfriend problem...
Over the summer, Marvel announced that, in the comics at least, the long-running character of Thor was going to be replaced by a woman. The writer, Jason...
I don’t know if it’s that they’re bored or if ISIS has something to do with it or, per Jeb Bush hiring his brother’s foreign policy...
Quick quiz: What’s the first thing you think about when you wake up and the last thing you think about before you go to sleep? For...
Brandon Ambrosino of Vox, using his review of the Christian film Old-Fashioned as a peg, asks the question of why Christian movies are just so bad. Not...