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May 2015

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May 29th
- Sorry about your lawn
- Vladimir Putin and FIFA's Sepp Blatter: A perfect alliance of sleaze
- Why slapping GM with a massive criminal fine won't improve auto safety
- Is ISIS still losing? Why Vox keeps getting the news wrong.
May 28th
- Why are Catholics so supportive of gay marriage?
- Too big to punish: Why Wall Street gets away with piddling fines
- I stopped forcing my toddler to eat dinner — and guess what? Nothing happened.
- Childbirth is finally getting the cultural treatment it deserves
- Ireland shows that Christians have only themselves to blame for the decline of Christianity
May 27th
- Down with FIFA! Why the next World Cup should be held in the U.S.A.
- Why Americans secretly love the idea of imperialist empires
- How Ireland's gay marriage vote exposes the catch-22 of modern Christianity
- Charter's merger with Time Warner Cable: How the death of antitrust law hurts everyone
May 26th
- Why we should welcome our new robot overlords
- Silicon Valley could save the world from climate change. But we don't want them to.
- Why Anderson Cooper's advice to 'follow your bliss' is so wrong
May 21st
- In defense of the natural family
- President Obama says climate change is a national security threat. Too bad he doesn't act like it.
- The case for flogging
- Why does the U.S. have bad public transit? Blame class warfare.
May 20th
- What America can learn from Europe's confused quest for shared values
- Why you should have 'the talk' with your kids when they're very young
May 19th
- The unemployment rate is higher than it should be — and that might be a good thing
May 18th
- Christians need to face the bad news about Christianity
- How to instill corporate America with the values of a family-owned business
- Why religion will dominate the 21st century
May 15th
- Is Christianity in America doomed?
- Amy Schumer wants you to stop buying into sexism
- Why Big Business needs to stop calling people 'human capital'
- Why Scottish independence would be good for Scotland and the rest of Britain
May 14th
- A wealth gap grows in Brooklyn: How racism perpetuates housing inequality
- Why workaholics are faking longer hours — and what that says about American businesses
- Yes, the justice system is bloated. But these 2 areas are still tragically underfunded.
May 13th
- Can Burundi dodge civil war? There's still hope.
- Mitch McConnell's surreal quest to preserve the NSA's illegal surveillance
- Will AOL's new merger go better than the last one?
- Why we should bring back hitchhiking
May 12th
- Here's a fix for rescuing Baltimore from its cycle of poverty
- David Cameron could enact a conservative plan for the ages
May 11th
- The extraordinary foolishness of building an EU army
- The decline of baseball — and American character
- The 2001 recession never really ended
May 8th
- A broken promise
- The horrifying pervasiveness of police brutality
- The shameful hypocrisy of our double standards on religion
May 7th
- Why Pam Geller's Muslim-baiting stunt in Garland was a big fat flop
- Why being miserable in high school is good for you
- Capitalism's dirty little secret
- Two cheers for David Cameron!
- Abolish prison
May 6th
- How modern capitalism killed self-reliance
- Drug warriors and food paranoiacs: Partners in scientific illiteracy
- Americans have never had more choices. And it's making us miserable.
May 5th
- Je suis Garland?
- 8 unbreakable rules to ensure you're not a jerk at concerts
- In praise of the land value tax
May 4th
- Game of Thrones recap: In the mood for love
May 1st
- Avengers: Age of Ultron is surprisingly comprehensible — and actually kind of good
- The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever
- The frightening power of our emboldened police

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