Thigh-High Politics is an op-ed column by Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca that breaks down the news, provides resources for the resistance, and just generally refuses to accept toxic nonsense. More than

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This is the prose version of a talk I gave at several conferences in 2017, including An Event Apart , Mind the Product , and Pixel Up! . It riffs on ideas I first explored in my article Systems Smart

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Americans love their nostalgic cultural icons more than God and country. As our faith in every cherished institution from religion to the free press to science to democracy erodes before our eyes, our

Moonlight strips us of our blackness. In the moonlight, an object might cast a shadow, but its color is gone. The significance of this is not lost on Barry Jenkins, screenwriter and director of Moonli

Susan Fowler. SusanJFowler.com/Shalon Van Tine UPDATE: In the two weeks since we’ve published this story, two more former female Uber (UBER) engineers have come forward with allegations of sexism and

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a stra

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Sarah Kendzior , February 9, 2017 It’s Already Happened Here Trump is a familiar figure, a manifestation of deep-seated will-to-white-male power Unlike his products, Trump is all-American. / Teakwood

This image was removed due to legal reasons. Every media company claims to value diversity in its newsroom; most of them also lay claim to some kind of impartiality. Well, I’m sorry, but: This is one

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Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war. I could’ve swung either way? But now I’m definitely spending the next 4 years converting your daughters to lesbianism; I’m gonna eat all your

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The Stone I Am a Dangerous Professor Credit... Leigh Wells Those familiar with George Orwell’s “1984” will recall that “Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.” I rec

Mark Makela/Getty Images In 2016, researchers stumbled on a radical tactic for reducing another person’s bigotry: a frank, brief conversation. The study , authored by David Broockman at Stanford Unive

The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They w

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Sorkin Girls, Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first tim

Today, Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. But the story of how he managed to become the most powerful man in the world — why Americans were drawn to someone with authori

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“A tremendous hand. Larger than average.” (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Donald Trump says he opposed the Iraq War from the beginning. Legions of fact-checkers have found no evidence for this c

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His presidency is winding down. A contentious election—fought largely over his rec­ord and legacy—is about to be decided. With that in mind, Barack Obama recently invited the presidential historian Do

Matt Haughey Aug 8, 2016 · 6 min read My photo but not my car Recently I sold a car on Craigslist. I never planned to sell my car there when I set out to buy a new one, but it turned out to be the best option. After some trial and error, I sold it, and I wanted to share my lessons from the…

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Over the last two weeks, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has taken a hit in the polls , much of it pretty clearly due to aggressive press investigations involving her relationship with the Clinton Foundati

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a framed photo of herself taken in 2007, Sharon Galicia stands, fresh-faced and beaming, b

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for international women's day Who says I'm always negative? Leaving aside the substantial evidence in the form of blog posts, angry Twitter rants and the rages that overtake me when my football team i

Yesterday I spoke at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism , NECSS, a “celebration of science and critical thinking” held May 12-15 in New York City. Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, whom I

ILLUSTRATION BY GLUEKIT “One person did that?” a woman was asking quietly into her cell phone on Sunday afternoon, in a supermarket on the Upper East Side. One didn’t have to wonder what “that” was. F