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My hoarding anxiety
Judy Batalion
I grew up suffocated by my mom's stuff. Now that I'm pregnant, I worry what habits I might form – or pass along
The roughest event on the football calendar
Nicholas Dawidoff
Every year the world's best prospects gather at the Combine to try out. Many will never put on an NFL uniform
Noam Chomsky: America is a terrified country
Catherine Komp
The philosopher on the violence we wage abroad, the income inequality we face at home and where we go from here
Homeless in the tech economy
Andrew Leonard
Can a for-profit crowd-funding start-up solve some of the social justice inequities the tech boom is making worse?
I could have been Renisha McBride
Carolyn Edgar
I was a young black woman knocking on a white stranger's door. But she treated me like a person, not a threat
A brief history of watching sex (and being watched)
Julie Peakman
Children used to be encouraged to gaze on couples in flagrante as a "method of instruction"
America’s twisted relationship with Mike Tyson
Daniel D'Addario
The former boxer served time for rape, but now America has forgiven him -- only to treat him as a figure of fun
Why we love loooong novels
Laura Miller
Let priggish critics and short-story buffs sneer, the 19th-century-style novel has never gone out of vogue
What a tragic death taught me about organized religion
Deborah Jackson Taffa
As a Native girl, I learned the difference between spirituality and dogma when we mourned my aunt and uncle
The craziest OkCupid date ever
Clara Bensen
Jeff and I traveled to eight countries in 21 days without changing clothes. It sure beat meeting for coffee
Maureen Ogle: Michael Pollan doesn’t get the beef business
Lindsay Abrams
Historian Maureen Ogle defends the oft-criticized meat industry -- and suggests some foodies have it all wrong
TV’s most unflinching portrayal of Asperger’s goes even deeper
Neil Drumming
"Parenthood" has always depicted Max's special needs strongly -- but now they're part of a political campaign
JFK assassination: CIA and New York Times are still lying to us
David Talbot
Fifty years later, a complicit media still covers up for the security state. We need to reclaim our history
12 novelists tell their scariest bite-size stories
Salon Staff
Original two-sentence stories to keep you awake tonight from Roxane Gay, Pamela Erens, Shani Boianjiu and more
My Confederate town
Jose Padua
Civil War-era politics still dominate Front Royal, Va. -- and I feel their hostility every time I walk out my door
One, doh!, three: Homer Simpson is a math genius. Really!
Simon Singh
Believe it or not, Homer can teach us a lot about advanced math. He does work in a nuclear power plant...
My son is not the poster child for the Right to Life movement
Emily Rapp
I will not let the memory of my beloved boy, now dead, get roped into the anti-abortion worldview
John Boehner fan fiction: Three novelists go inside the speaker’s brain and imagine the shutdown’s final hours
Joshua Furst, Alissa Nutting
Novelists Joshua Furst, Elliott Holt and Alissa Nutting show us the shutdown through John Boehner's eyes
House stenographer’s unhinged outburst: No crazier than the right’s shutdown talk
Mary Elizabeth Williams
House stenographer Dianne Reidy goes on a tirade about God and Freemasons -- but still sounds remarkably familiar
Karl Lagerfeld’s cat can has cheezburger
Ej Dickson
Choupette the pet's precocious persona helps explain why felines are so worshipped -- especially online
Counting my drinks
Kathleen Volk Miller
My mother and sister disappeared into the drink. I'm careful to watch myself -- except when I slip
Modern GOP is still the party of Dixie
Kim Messick
How the South poisons American conservatism and sabotages our politics
Peter Buck: “I think we were all really ready for a change”
David Daley
Exclusive: Talking R.E.M., Tired Pony and the future, with an inspired Peter Buck -- in perhaps his last interview
Before the meltdown: The surprising roots of Paula Deen’s career
Allen Salkin
Believe it or not, Deen's rise was based on bringing people together -- on comfort food after Sept. 11
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