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February 11, 2015
Robert Wright
Brian Williams Is Being Punished for Something Every Human Does
February 11, 2015
Elaine Teng
This Argentine Director Has Accomplished What Scorsese and Woody Couldn't
February 10, 2015
Robert John Young
This Adorable Monkey Was Eaten by Otters. Stop Blaming the Zoo!
February 10, 2015
Kashann Kilson
Iggy Azalea Gets Away With Reverse Minstrelsy Because There's a Market for It
February 10, 2015
Alison Bartlett
Male Professors Are "Genius." Female Professors Are "Nice."
A new study reveals gender biases in teacher ratings
February 10, 2015
Ethan Gates
Oscar-Nominated 'Timbuktu' Shows the Terrors of Life Under Islamist Extremism
February 10, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Meet the Black _________
The problem with racial equivalencies
February 9, 2015
Sam Eifling
New York's Subways are a Bacterial Zoo? Tell Us Something We Don't Already Know.
February 9, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
Scientists Discover Air Pollution in Peru From Almost 500 Years Ago
February 9, 2015
Alec Hanley Bemis
What It Was Like to Study Under Robert Stone
Rest in peace, merry prankster
February 9, 2015
Ethan Gates
The Oscar-Nominated Film Hollywood Loves, But the Russian Government Hates
February 8, 2015
Stuart Maconie
The Privileged Are Taking Over the Arts
February 7, 2015
Peter Manseau
The Puritans Were America's First Anti-Vaxxers
February 6, 2015
Malcolm Harris
The Moral Hazard of Big Data
Pasquale's 'Black Box Society' takes on the destructive power of money-hungry computation
February 6, 2015
Esther Breger
'Better Call Saul' Has Its Own Dark, Addictive Chemistry
February 6, 2015
Jazmine Hughes
How Many White People Does It Take to Ruin a Good Joke?
The gentrification of racial humor
February 6, 2015
Esther Breger
Serial Offenders
'Mad Men,' 'True Detective,' and the miseducation of the fanatical TV viewer
February 6, 2015
Jen Doll
An Anti-Capitalist Woman Invented Monopoly and a Man Got All the Credit
The surprising origins of a beloved board game
February 6, 2015
Alice Robb
A Memory Expert Explains Brian Williams's 'False' Memory
February 6, 2015
Elaine Teng
Is the Foreign Film Oscar Corrupt and Pointless?

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