- Read the emotional letter from a former inmate to President Obama that helped get him out of prison
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- This app is helping Brazilians document shootings and police brutality during the Olympics in Rio
- These students asked for a non-white roommate—and then faced an uproar
- The unbelievably bendy bodies of Olympic women’s gymnastics
- How Olympics announcers talk about athletes, based on their age
- Feds blast private prisons, and prison execs respond by blaming immigrants
- I traveled across the country by train to find how our generation is trying to change the world
- Here are 5 things Twitter could do to fix abuse right now
- Is this shadowy network of PACs ripping off pro-life voters around the country?
- Why white Americans should think twice before claiming Simone Manuel’s victory
- People are showing up to Donald Trump’s rallies with Trump-branded Confederate flags
- Donald Trump just gave Barack Obama a great reason to try and close GITMO ASAP
- We just got a horrifying glimpse of the bullying queer high school students face
- A court just smacked down yet another racist North Carolina voting law
- Rabia Chaudry’s new book ‘Adnan’s Story’ picks up where ‘Serial’ left off
- Why was Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan detained at a U.S. airport? Take a wild guess
- How American gymnastics rose to power and glory by stealing communist ideas
- Meet Michelle Carter, the American shot putter on a mission for gender equality
- This year Latinos should celebrate pride with the power of our vote
- 6 body horror films as feminist as they are stomach-churning
- A newspaper was forced to take down this shockingly terrible tweet about Simone Manuel
- Here’s why Simone Manuel’s historic gold medal is so emotional for black Americans
- That time I interviewed to be Ivanka Trump’s assistant
- Donald Trump went to an anti-LGBTQ conference in Orlando just two months after the Pulse massacre
- 23 more Donald Trump conspiracy theories that Hillary Clinton can expect to debunk
- The U.S. government’s new policy on marijuana research is a big, big deal—even if you don’t smoke
- TV news channels have finally figured out how to call Donald Trump a liar, and it’s glorious
- The Daily Beast’s article outing gay Olympians on Grindr wasn’t just gross. It was dangerous.
- Black people wait twice as long to vote as white people, a new study finds
- What happened when gun control advocates and 2nd Amendment defenders sat down for dinner
- Mr. Robot’s Joanna Wellick makes villainy look like lifestyle porn
- Days before he was set to be executed, Robert Pruett will get another chance to prove his innocence
- A former Trump staffer is being sued for allegedly pulling a gun on his colleague
- The Rio Olympics: Surveillance for the poor, control for the rich
- Two Fox News dirtbags had a disgusting chat about female athletes wearing makeup at the Olympics
- How will Zika affect women getting fertility treatments?
- This black Kentucky judge alleged racism in the courtroom. Now, he’s being suspended.
- Of course Trump doesn’t literally believe Obama founded ISIS, so why does he keep saying it?
- Is the world ready for a black, queer, intersex Olympian?
- Erykah Tijerina could be the 17th trans person murdered this year
- Even the local paper was unpersuaded by Trump’s ‘low energy’ coal country speech
- 115,000 people sign a petition supporting Chelsea Manning as she fights indefinite solitary confinement
- When ‘Step Up’ came out 10 years ago, critics compared Channing Tatum to Vanilla Ice
- How to become an Olympic athlete, even if you suck at sports
- Meet Ashleigh Johnson, the astounding water polo player being called the future of the sport
- Ronald Reagan’s daughter has a stern warning for Donald Trump and his ‘Second Amendment people’
- Here’s why you probably won’t own a home at the same age your parents did
- This ‘Futurama’ voice actor recorded Donald Trump quotes as Zapp Brannigan and I can’t
- Katie Ledecky is a legendary Olympic swimmer, so of course an NBC station asked about her manicure
- Another white college student avoids prison after being convicted of rape
- John Waters’ ‘Multiple Maniacs’ still shocks audiences 46 years after its release
- Scientists want to play 20 questions with Trump and Clinton
- Talking to John Carlos about his legacy, social justice at the Olympics, and the importance of Michael Phelps smoking weed
- How the 1968 Olympics became a watershed moment for the Black Power movement in America
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- Social media strikes back after Mexican Olympic athlete gets body-shamed
- Women are often excluded from clinical trials because periods
- Would better technology at the Baltimore Police Department have saved Freddie Gray?
- Gabby Douglas silences the haters over her bogus national anthem ‘controversy’
- Los Angeles police shot and killed a 14-year-old boy after responding to a vandalism report
- Some dude is scaling Trump Tower with suction cups and people are losing it
- A pool party for Muslim women in France had to be canceled after racist backlash and threats
- The other Perfect 10: The half-Korean Soviet gymnast you’ve never heard of
- Trump says he doesn’t want Clinton shot, while embracing a high profile supporter who does
- An exclusive preview of the Trump campaign’s ‘reset’ plans
- Snapchat’s new ‘anime’ filter is literally just a racist Asian caricature
- Rio 2016: 13 photos of insanely intense Olympic judo faces
- Kansas couple who live in a ‘digital hell’ sue mapping company MaxMind
- A guy with a PhD in humor explains why Trump’s Second Amendment ‘joke’ is the opposite of funny
- LA sheriffs admit they shot and killed an innocent black man while looking for a carjacker
- Black people already know police departments are racist. Now they need things to change.
- 12 insanely horrifying things we learned from the Justice Department’s report on Baltimore’s police
- How a small Florida town is standing in the way of stopping Zika in the US
- Bow down before the insanely stacked cast of the all-female ‘Ocean’s 8’ reboot
- This Islamic center has an inspiring response to being vandalized for the second time this year
- This trans model used her dress to protest the 72 countries where homosexuality is illegal
- A winner in last night’s Minnesota GOP primary has insane ideas about slavery, women and much more
- Unprecedented federal court ruling elevates environmental justice over demands of industry
- Will cannabis beauty products get you high on skin care?
- How our racist child support laws hurt poor, black fathers the most
- Rio 2016: Here’s who you should root for today, including this amazing refugee swimmer
- How to make a Tinder profile people will swipe right on, according to science
- Mexico launches a nationwide campaign against sexting
- El presidente que pidió perdón
- Don’t keep putting these things in your vagina, okay?
- Donald Trump’s most respectable economic idea is still amazingly bad
- There’s now a caffeinated version of Soylent and people are going crazy for it
- The Department of Justice is making police report officer-involved killings for the first time
- 41% of Trump supporters in North Carolina think that Hillary Clinton is literally the devil
- What it’s like to organize a pride parade in a country where being LGBTQ is outlawed
- How to make a perfect caipirinha, the drink of the Rio Olympics
- Wait, did Donald Trump just say that ‘Second Amendment people’ could shoot Hillary Clinton?
- A North Carolina county tried to make voting harder. These protesters weren’t having it.
- America’s other first black president is also leaving his post
- Singing to cellphones
- Jet.com’s $3.3 billion sale to Walmart (probably) made this random IT guy a multi-millionaire
- Pokémon Go players are wreaking havoc on a Toronto ferry terminal
- Netflix’s full-length ‘Luke Cage’ trailer will transport you to Harlem
- ‘BoJack Horseman’ dismantles Hollywood’s treatment of women directors with this subtle gag