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July 14, 2015
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Our New Podcast: Intersection
July 14, 2015
Kathryn Joyce
Why Does Open Adoption Rarely Work?
July 14, 2015
Laura Marsh
These Scholars Have Been Pointing Out Atticus Finch's Racism for Years
July 13, 2015
Debra Kachel
School Libraries Are Under Attack
July 13, 2015
Rose Courteau
“Please Don’t Call Me On My Bluff”
Why Rihanna's "BBHMM" video isn't as progressive as you think
July 13, 2015
William Giraldi
The Suspicious Story Behind Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman.’
July 13, 2015
Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson
What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
July 13, 2015
Paul Buhle, Noah Van Sciver
An Illustrated History of the American Frontier's Peace-Loving, Apple-Growing, Mystical Hero
The travels and travails of Johnny Appleseed
July 10, 2015
Laura Marsh
The Secrets of the Goldman Sachs Elevator Are Better Left to Twitter
July 10, 2015
Bijan Stephen
How to Live Within a Black Body
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is a letter to his son, and a lesson for us all
July 9, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Can a Rich White Guy Be an Everyman?
The insidious class politics of “Self/Less”
July 8, 2015
Chloe Angyal
It’s Not Easy Being a Guy in a Country Song, Either
July 8, 2015
Scott Jacques, Richard Wright
Even Drug Dealers in the Suburbs Are Boring
July 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
Drawn + Quarterly Comics Enters a New Era
July 8, 2015
Sally Kohn
Disney, Do It for My Daughter: Make a Film Starring Gay Characters
July 7, 2015
Nausicaa Renner
The Philosopher's Guide to Growing Up
July 7, 2015
Evan Kindley
My Idol, the "Worst Rapper Ever"
July 7, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Rihanna Is No Pam Grier
"BBHMM" puts a materialistic spin on a social-justice blaxploitation classic
July 6, 2015
Jamil Smith
How "Back to the Future" Helped Make Me a Feminist
30 years after the film's release, a new look at its depiction of race and sexual assault
July 6, 2015
Jonathan Malesic
Robots Might Save the Humanities

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