281 words Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore?
157 words America's Future Is Texas: With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether
184 words You say you’re pro-life, but then you want to limit health care for my disabled son| Washington Post
200 words You're Not Mad at United Airlines; You're Mad at America
176 words What's behind the urge to uncover an 'authentic self'?
267 words Suicide kills more U.S. troops than ISIL in Middle East
217 words The Libertarian Utopia That’s Just a Bunch of White Guys on a Tiny Island
247 words Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers Is a Blatant Lie - Atlanta Black Star
1,286 words Here's how a $50 drug ends up costing you $700 in America's healthcare system
238 words If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too
201 words How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down
422 words University To Freshmen: Don't Expect Safe Spaces Or Trigger Warnings -- "We do not support so-called 'trigger warnings,' we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual 'safe spaces.'"
365 words “FindFace,” a facial recognition app that matches random photographs to people’s social media pages on Vkontakte is used to harass women who have appeared in porn
308 words The psychology of radicalization: how terrorist groups attract young followers. "Many social scientists say nihilism,... [mental illness, and religious fanaticism] fall short in explaining what drives terrorists."
135 words Only 1.4% of white americans owned slaves at the peak of slavery in the USA. Meanwhile 28% of free blacks in the USA were estimated to own slaves
530 words We've forgotten how to give children the space to have secrets
460 words From Pickup Artist to Pariah -- Jared Rutledge fancied himself a big man of the “manosphere.” But when his online musings about 46 women were exposed, his whole town turned against him.
434 words The Latin America WikiLeaks--US diplomatic cables reveal a coordinated assault against Latin America’s left-wing governments.
366 words A Culture Clash Over Guns Infiltrates the Backcountry: A fight is playing out in national forests from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest between backpackers seeking solitude and gun owners out for target shooting.
384 words How New York Ended Up With 1.2 Million Open Arrest Warrants