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The NFL's response to the #TakeAKnee demonstrations has revived the debate over patriotism and protest.

Comedy and satire cartoons are supposed to push boundaries, but all too often, they fall back on deeply ingrained racist imagery.

When we look for an "authentic" restaurant, what do we really mean?

Two black men walked into a Philadelphia Starbucks to meet a friend. Moments later, the store manager called the police.

Does a right to self-defense guarantee access to firearms?

At the March For Our Lives, young people stood front and center in the fight against gun violence in America.

A prisoner in Michigan recently published a major collection of short stories. Now, prison officials are asking him to use the profits to pay for his own incarceration.

Examining the history and contemporary use of the n-word reveals why it's so problematic for non-black people to say it.

The debate around the fate of DACA requires an examination of what relationship undocumented immigrants should have to US immigration law.

In 1941, a damaged Japanese fighter plane landed on Ni'ihau after the Pearl Harbor attack. What happened next sparked lingering questions about the relationship between national and ethnic identity.

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether products like wedding cakes count as speech, and whether their makers can refuse to serve LGBTQ couples.

In the wake of the #metoo campaign, some have pushed for zero tolerance policies for those accused of sexual assault. What would the implications of such a policy be?

Sexual assaults do not only occur in the vacuum of Hollywood but rather there are everywhere you look. This article draws attention to sexual assault within the agriculture business.

When people are killed for their collectible sneakers, do the shoes' designers share any responsibility?

With discussions of sexual assault, #Metoo was renewed to provide voices for women. But in a society where many men still shun feminism, what else does it do?

The fatalism that marks the gun rights movement's approach to gun safety is fundamentally intertwined with religious notions of evil.

The sciences are facing a reproducibility crisis - a crisis that can only be solved by better valuing studies that work to reproduce existing results, rather than simply break new ground.

Harvey Weinstein's record of sexual assault reveals an uncomfortable truth about sexual harassment in Hollywood - a truth that must be addressed.

As our fears about the apocalypse have changed, so have our media depicting them. What do these new forms of media say about morality in a post-apocalyptic environment?

Is the world becoming "post-work?" And if it is, how will that change the way we talk about our labor?