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Sexual trafficking in China: Kidnapped into prostitution
Mitch Moxley
Mongolian women are disappearing -- and many of them are landing in Beijing brothels against their will
My father, the hoarder
Kimberly Rae Miller
"I remember the dirt and the rats and the squalor, but I also remember parents who loved me."
Snob zones: Fear, money and real estate
Lisa Prevost
A couple tried to build affordable housing in lily-white Darien, Conn. Then it got ugly
Ryan Gosling: “Do I look like a feminist?”
Andrew O'Hehir
Web darling Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn talk about Internet fame and "Only God Forgives"
Meet the Hasids: Getting to know the people who scared me
Corinna Nicolaou
As a girl, I was afraid of my Orthodox neighbors. Twenty years later, I reached out to try to understand them
David Rakoff’s “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”
David Rakoff
An excerpt from a novel in verse
Israel: Trapped between dream and reality
Andrew O'Hehir
"Israel: A Home Movie" captures the collision between idealism and reality that defines a troubled, vibrant nation
“Orange Is the New Black”: The real story of my year in a women’s prison
Piper Kerman
Can't wait for "Orange Is the New Black" on Netflix? The book's author remembers her first days behind bars
“Sharknado” saves the summer!
Mary Elizabeth Williams
When a summer's this terrible, it takes something truly, gloriously terrible to redeem it
Senate disguises militarization as immigration reform
Todd Miller
New legislation would transform the US-Mexico border into a domestic surveillance command center
Texas activist Sarah Slamen: “It’s this police state that keeps us quiet”
Katie McDonough
The newly minted feminist icon tells Salon about getting thrown out of the Texas abortion hearings, and what's next
Writer Geoff Dyer really, really likes to sit
Prachi Gupta
The journalist talks about sitting on various chairs as if it is an artform
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control
Radley Balko
SWAT teams raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking? Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise
Thomas Jefferson was a control freak
Joshua Kendall
The third president had an obsessive-compulsive side which explains much, maybe even his relationship with a slave
Where are the young Democrats?
Alex Seitz-Wald
From Cruz to Paul, GOP is loaded with national figures under 50. Dems seemingly have no one to rival them in 2020
How Humboldt became America’s marijuana capital
Emily Brady
In the 1970s, hippie pioneers mastered a new way of growing pot -- and transformed the economy of Humboldt County
An excerpt from Curtis Sittenfeld’s “Sisterland”
Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction: An exclusive look at chapter one of the dazzling new novel from the author of "Prep" and "American Wife"
“God is a delusion”: I was a Pentecostal preacher — until I lost my faith
Jerry DeWitt, Ethan Brown
I was a Pentecostal preacher for decades. When I lost faith, I thought I'd lose everything -- but atheism saved me
Without full-time jobs, workers flock to temp towns
Michael Grabell
Short-term work has become a mainstay of the American economy, intensifying the rise in income inequality
Our theocracy nightmare: President Palin’s martial law
Frederic C. Rich
What if McCain/Palin won, then McCain died -- and a terror attack followed. Apocalyptic fiction from a nightmare
Who was Roberto Bolaño?
Lisa Locascio
An exhibition of the "2666" author's personal effects offers new clues to the man behind the literary legend
Home on the range — in New York City
Daniel Krieger
Even in America’s least gun-friendly city, a small but steadfast group insists on staying locked and loaded
Review: “You should put a condom on that”
Tracy Clark-Flory
I check out Birchbox's erotic-themed imitators -- and encounter a bit of sexiness and a whole lot of yuckiness
Ai Weiwei on his incarceration: “They never looked away from me, 24 hours a day”
Mike Doherty
His recent performance with Laurie Anderson dealt with surveillance; Anderson said she admires Edward Snowden
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