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Why you should send back J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore Christmas presents

J.K. Rowling needs to let sleeping characters lie—and it's time to stop retconning Harry Potter for diversity points.

On Dec 24, 2014 by S.E. Smith

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Our porn obsession is hurting our sex lives

It's time to take a good hard look at porn.

On Dec 20, 2014 by Harris O'Malley

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Sex in porn isn’t as different from real life as you think

We should stop trying to separate "real sex" from "porn."

On Dec 19, 2014 by Lux Alptraum

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5 signs your racially charged joke is really just racist

Race jokes aren't taboo, you just have to learn how to make them.

On Dec 9, 2014 by S.E. Smith

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Fact-checking is a journalist’s job—even in rape cases

The fallout over Rolling Stone's reporting on an alleged UVA campus gang rape says a lot about how we report on sexual assault.

On Dec 5, 2014 by EJ Dickson

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Why the tech-bro takeover of media keeps failing

The mass resignations at the New Republic today are part of a bigger pattern.

On Dec 5, 2014 by Miles Klee

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The transgender revolution will not be clickbait

As trans visibility increases, the media are making the same old tired mistakes.

On Dec 3, 2014 by Mitch Kellaway

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You can’t make it alone on YouTube

We built our YouTube empire from nothing, but today, things are very different.

On Dec 3, 2014 by Hank Green

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The world was watching as Ferguson reacted to the grand jury’s decision

Protests dominated news around the globe.

On Nov 25, 2014 by Patrick Howell O'Neill

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Inside the overnight success of ‘Serial’ and the dawn of podcasting’s golden age

The golden age of the podcast may have finally arrived.

On Nov 24, 2014 by Ashlyn Keefe

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The problem with saying Michael Phelps’s alleged girlfriend was ‘born a man’

The media response to Taylor Lianne Chandler's revelation that she was born intersex illustrates our failure to understand trans issues.

On Nov 20, 2014 by S.E. Smith

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What a hashtag says about journalism’s ongoing race problem

#HowMediaWritesWOC took on racism in journalism with a bang. 

On Nov 20, 2014 by Victoria Law

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5 things online dating taught me about racism

Colorism reveals the racism embedded in the way we talk about different shades of black and brown.

On Nov 19, 2014 by Kristin Collins Jackson

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I was at the center of that CNN street harassment mansplaining video

I have zero regrets. 

On Nov 13, 2014 by Amanda Seales

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China censors Obama’s open Internet speech

The instructions leaked online yesterday.

On Nov 12, 2014 by Patrick Howell O'Neill