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The White Entitlement of Some Sanders Supporters

If you’re young, white and privileged, you don’t expect to lose. When you do, it must be because you got cheated. Blacks know better.

Barrett Holmes Pitner

09 June 2016

What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour

Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones?

Neil Irwin

How my job talking women out of abortions made me pro-choice

I started to see the pro-life movement as a means to maintain strict gender roles with women bound to home and family and disproportionately punished for unwanted pregnancies.

Susie Meister


03 June 2016

How the Bathroom Wars Shaped America

It’s not just North Carolina. Some of America’s great political struggles have pivoted around who uses which toilet.

Neil J. Young

Why the Middle East Is Still a Mess a Century After the Sykes-Picot Agreement

It’s just the delayed but inevitable result of the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Fred Kaplan