The legend of a fed-up marine who knocks out his atheist professor is more than a meme. It's folk literature

The actor, who stars as a saint in "Padre Pio," denies Olivia Wilde's narrative about why he exited her film

Congress is broken. But the White House can still do plenty to fix national problems and restore Biden's popularity

Will voters create a $430 million charter-school commission when school budgets are already suffering?

With the pressures of modern society, millennial college students "can’t afford to be" as aloof as critics allege

A conservative political troll tries -- and fails! -- to expose "the truth" behind men who support abortion rights

Add this one to the thigh gap, the underboob challenge and other damaging body-shape tropes

Following the New York Post's lead, a belief is affirmed: The Boston explosions must have been done by Muslims

Meet Turning Point USA, an astroturf right-wing student group that became the butt of the joke

As a downwardly-mobile generation, Dadaist jokes about death by Tide Pod is a form of catharsis for us millennials

A British psychologist prowls for hard evidence that memes -- ideas that reproduce genetically, like viruses -- actually exist. What's one of the prime habitats? The Internet.

Parsing 25 years of Salon stories gives insight into the evolution of memes — and of internet culture at large

Salon speaks to Anne-Marie Slaughter about the debate over Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and race

Rep. Steve King still thinks Obamacare will decide "whether your life is worth saving"

Greedy social media networks already let the trolls have too much power — yet Musk thinks it's not enough