portraits of courage
Breadsticks not included
In defense of paying $400 to eat at the Times Square Olive Garden on New Year’s Eve
I want you to want me
The year in presidential candidates trying to make you like them
👲👎
Yes, emoji still have a racism problem
Patterns
This is the headline construction you’re looking for
separate and unequal
American schools are still segregated. These parents are making it worse
Marijuantrepreneurs
I went to a party for weed entrepreneurs that had very little chill
Literally Unbelievable
2015 as predicted by ‘The Onion’ in 15 stories
LIKE ATTICUS FINCH, BUT NOT RACIST
Crushing on the ‘Making a Murderer’ defense attorneys? You’re not alone
#selfie
What I learned from a weekend of konversation with Kim Kardashian’s Kimojis
Galactic street art
Star Wars stormtroopers are taking over Mexico City
Contributors
Collier Meyerson
new report
The latest numbers on police killings show the problem may be worse than we thought
Daniel Rivero
on the books
From hoverboards to drones: A quick guide to 9 new laws going into effect on New Year’s
Jorge Rivas
The elephant in the room
Only one candidate mentioned race in debate question about racism
Kevin Roose
Breadsticks not included
In defense of paying $400 to eat at the Times Square Olive Garden on New Year’s Eve
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Pop & Culture
scoping it out
Astrologers spill: Here’s what to expect in 2016, according to the stars
whodunnit
‘Making A Murderer’: 5 fascinating theories about what REALLY happened
Bad Blood
Why 2015 was actually a terrible year for women in music
A SAINT BY ANY OTHER NAME
This year celebrities named their babies WHAT?!
Fusion on TV
citizen journalists
YouTube’s Top News Stories of 2015: Part 1
CALLING ALL BELLARINAS
Bella Thorne says writing a novel with dyslexia is her biggest achievement
Investigations
How did Colombia’s hottest heroin end up in this Vermont dad’s veins?
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
‘The Chair’ Episode 1: Meet two aspiring filmmakers competing for a spot in the director’s chair
Follow Us And Never Miss A Beat
Voices
radical thinking
What’s a ‘safe space’? A look at the phrase’s 50-year history
Voices
How I told my grandma I’m transgender
Limited perspective drawing
A map of the world according to Donald Trump
redemption song
How do you convince someone that who you were at 15 is not who you are today?
Sex & Life
EGG, MEET SPERM
Here are all the f*cking incredible new ways doctors are making babies
STRAIGHT OUTTA CONDOMS
Do you live in a gonorrhea danger zone?
NO FRIEND ZONE
Why lonely teens stay lonely
ALWAYS BE CLOTHES-ING
How do you know if your shopping habit is actually an addiction?
Justice
helluva loophole
The shocking gun loophole that lets suspected terrorists buy guns
SHUT DOWN
A Brooklyn court just indicted eight people for running a brutal sex-trafficking ring
calling their bluff
How the Syrian refugee crisis shows the hypocrisy of ‘All Lives Matter’
smoking guns
A former Glock executive is going to prison for selling police guns for profit
Latin America
home is where the heart is
Jorge Ramos: Going home to Mexico
a way out
Secret deal hatched to airlift 8,000 Cubans out of Costa Rica and put them back on track to U.S.
They said it
Latin America: The year in quotes
Bienvenido a Mexifornia
Bordertown sitcom will bring Family Guy humor to immigration issues
Project Earth
sharing climate change
Talk about this weather. No really, talk about it.
Saving the world, for one
Swimming the Pacific, paramotoring Russia and flying around the world—all to save the planet
Project Earth
What is up with this massive gas leak in Los Angeles?
making connections
Covering women’s rights through an environmental lens can be a bit of a doozy
Money
profits and purity
Is Al Gore’s ethical investment company all it’s cracked up to be?
for hire
Is it possible to work for free without being exploited?
bad ideas
Guy says he owes E*Trade $106,000 for shorting pharma stock before Shkreli investment
Emerald City
There’s finally a major American city where rent increases are slowing
Interactives
get to know them
Who are the ‘Prison Kids’? Portraits of America’s incarcerated youth
Soccer
Introducing Soccer Gods : The Body Issue
Cash Money
Wealth gap calculator: Are you in the millennial one percent?
PLAYING POLITICS
The Assault on Abortion in Alabama
Investigations
A CRIME AGAINST AMERICA'S CHILDREN
Watch ‘Prison Kids,’ the investigative documentary about juvenile justice in America
POLICING THE DAIRYLAND
It isn’t easy being black in the Badger State
Our National Disgrace
16 images that demonstrate America’s addiction to jailing children
Cell-Awareness
Inside a jail for kids in Louisiana: A 360-degree experience
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