The Bernie Sanders Save the Children Fund
Why do we need 23 deodorant choices when children are going hungry?
Culture
The Politics of Tomorrowland
The Fountainhead? More like The Open Conspiracy crossed with "The Gernsback Continuum."
Tomorrowland: 'Atlas Shrugged reimagined by Mickey Mouse'
Is director Brad Bird's film an "insidiously political" argument for the value of individual achievement?
NYPD Injury Caused Atlanta Hawks' Thabo Sefolosha to Miss Playoffs: Claim
Little coverage by sports press.
How the Internet Changed Conspiracy Theories
...and other topics from DigBoston's recent interview with me
Democrats Want to Force Religious Pregnancy Centers in California to Offer Abortion Info
Some crisis pregnancy centers are shady. But the point should be making them be honest about what they are, not trying to turn them into something they're not.
Kids, Go Ahead and Talk to Strangers: Lenore Skenazy in The Washington Post
The free-range movement is growing
Grindr and Tinder Use Is Up: STDs Are Too
Or least they are in Rhode Island, say state health officials.
How to Tell When the Latest Drug Scare Story Is Just the Usual BS
Five hallmarks of anti-drug hysteria
Boston U. Prof 'Absolutely Knew' She Was Taunting a Rape Survivor, Survivor Alleges
'Sickened' that Dr. Saida Grundy 'gets away with it'
That Time George W. Bush Offered to Officiate a Lesbian Wedding
The milestone you missed
Family Leave Policies Are Supposed to Help Women. Instead, They Trap Them.
Yes, there are unintended consequences to requiring employers to offer family leave benefits.
This is Why High School Sucks for so Many Kids: 16 Yr Old Photog Threatened by Admin for Selling Pics
Texas' Flower Mound HS opens news fronts on the war on students and on photography.
Is Alan Grayson Congress' Most Awful Representative?
No, but is it too much to ask for representatives - even those from Florida - to not be jackasses *all* the time?
Should Libertarians Embrace Reform Conservativism? Should Conservatives?
"Reformocons" reject technocratic, top-down government solutions to pressing policy issues. What could be wrong with that? Well, for starters...
Feminism, Frankenstein, and Freedom
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Game of Thrones Meets Marguerite de Navarre
Historical views of sexual violence make modern television look remarkably moral and restrained.
The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us (Increasing Social Tolerance Edition)
Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals want to keep the world tightly sorted into two categories that describe fewer and fewer Americans.
"America's Most Awful Liberal is a #FloridaMan: Alan Grayson"
Members of Congress should be held to higher standards than regular voters.
Friday A/V Club: Mort Sahl's Guide to the Political Spectrum
How the left, the right, and the middle looked in 1967
Boy Scouts Can't Squirt Squirt Guns at Each Other and Must Use Goggles
Definitely not helping the uncoolness factor of being a Scout
Block Biotech Progress or Embrace It? Bioethicists Debate What's to Come.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
Movie Reviews: Tomorrowland and The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
Into the future with George Clooney, into the dumper with Tom Six's last trash fest.
There's No Such Thing as Unbiased Journalism, So Stop Pretending
Shock a former political operative was less than honest about his relationship with his former bosses
New Jersey Kid Almost Expelled for Bringing Foam Nerf Dart to School
'Self-constructed weapon'
With Liberty and Drag For All! What We Saw at RuPaul's First Ever DragCon
Drag is finding a mainstream audience.
For the Vatican, Climate Change Leads to … Abortion?
Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo has got something he wants to say to you...
Thank Sid Blumenthal for Telling Hillary Clinton Benghazi Was a Planned Attack
What did she know and when did she know it? More important: WTF were we doing in Libya to begin with?
Clickbaiting Misinformation: Your Wifi Will Kill You - NOT
Top story at Drudge is CBS article promoting discredited activist claims about electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
What Did U-M Coach Jim Harbaugh Say to Offended Students? I Was Kicked Out of the Meeting.
Discussion between Harbaugh and students conducted behind locked doors.
Clinton Aide Sid Blumenthal is the Human Equivalent of a Semen-Stained Dress
He is a barely repressed reminder of a dark, gothic past that haunts Hillary Clinton and just won't stay buried.
Osama bin Laden's Library Included a 9/11 Conspiracy Book. Naturally.
But no Thomas Friedman
As Another Accusation Bites the Dust, Columbia Rape Saga Takes New Turn
The accused now takes his case to the civil courts
9 Media Tropes About Free Speech
Popehat's bookmarkable guide to journalistic nonsense about the First Amendment
Yes, Game of Thrones Is a Show About Rape. I Still Hated That Scene.
But unlike Sen. McCaskill, I'll still be watching
Mitch Daniels Wasn't Kidding About Free Speech on Campus
As foreshadowed in his Reason TV interview, Purdue president gets free-speech 'green light' from FIRE
Mattress Girl, Mattress Attend Graduation—Hold Your Applause
Media ignores messy dispute between Emma Sulkowicz, Paul Nungesser, and Columbia University
Dear @POTUS… 17 Twitter Conversations With President Obama
"Dear Mr. President. There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three."
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Diversity Officer Who Tweeted 'Kill All White Men' Deserves Ridicule, Not Arrest
'Resistance to our resistance is futile.'
Shikha Dalmia on a Federal Ban on Late-Term Abortions
Why Republicans pushing the ban are hypocritical
