Throwing Down with The Lost Sisterhood: Amazons, Academics, and Adventure
Anne Fortier's novel envisions women "who live outside of society"
Culture
Big Brother Is Watching You Eat
The federal government wants to use your technology to change what you eat. In the meantime, they're surreptitiously posting your data online.
Are Voters Too Sensitive to 'Microaggressions?'
Professors say Republican 'microaggressions' have pushed Asian Americans to vote Democrat.
Contraceptives, Corporations, and Obamacare
Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. reaches the Supreme Court.
Young Brony Gets to Keep His School Bag
Friendship could stand to be a little more magic in North Carolina.
Uncle Sam's Drinking Game
The federal government's definition of excessive alcohol consumption mixes medicine with moralism.
Friday A/V Club: A Nightmare Vision of a World Without Congress
The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress
Divergent and Nymphomaniac: Volume I
Shailene Woodley breaks out, Lars von Trier goes all the way.
Casino Magnate Finds Legislators to Support His War on Online Gambling
Death to the competition! For the children, of course.
Fred Phelps Is Dead. Gay America Lives On.
Let's stop being obsessed about his increasingly irrelevant church
Diplomas vs. Dirty Jobs
TV host Mike Rowe on the educational bias against unglamorous, good-paying work
Freedom for Me, but Not for Thee
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has no problem with experiments with American liberties, unless she and her staff are the victims.
Cellphone Justice and the Killing of Kelly Thomas
Fullerton cops go free after beating an innocent man to death.
