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“Carol” isn’t just a “lesbian movie”: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara’s ’50s love story is a classic American screen romance
Andrew O'Hehir
Sure, there's a message in Todd Haynes' luminous, lesbian-themed movie masterpiece: Love hurts, and keeps us alive
Faith after Ferguson: It’s been 1 year since Michael Brown’s killer wasn’t indicted, and I learned what I really believed in
Jacqui Germain
I lost faith in the system that night —but I replaced it with something stronger
“Robert De Niro bit my face off!”: How I learned to work with our greatest living actor without coming unglued
Illeana Douglas
Even better than acting with De Niro was making him laugh. And my "Raging Bullwinkle" routine did it every time
I went to church with Ted Cruz. He is building an army of young Christian voters in Iowa
Robert Leonard
These Iowa voters buy into Fox News war on Christmas, and love Ted Cruz's patriotic, end-times rhetoric. Look out
Spare us your French flag filter: The self-indulgent social media performance doesn’t help anyone
Paula Young Lee
A filter on my Facebook photo wouldn't do anything except make me feel like I'm a good person
We expect comedians to comfort us: “SNL,” “The Daily Show,” and comedy’s new ritual of public mourning
Scott Timberg
Comedians are today's public intellectuals—but there are only so many ways for them to weigh in on these moments
“Vagina voter”: Witnessing the sexism hurled at Hillary in ’08 — and the assumptions made about her supporters — changed my life
Jennifer Hall Lee
My awareness of how sexism affected the '08 campaign came gradually, but when it did it changed me profoundly
Ben Carson wants a safe space: The Republicans are coddled and politically correct
Aaron R. Hanlon
Angered by oppositional speech? Not mature enough to respond with civility? Sounds like the GOP after CNBC debate
The GOP debate was a blizzard of garbage: Sorting through last night’s mess of lies and crazy
Gary Legum
The fourth GOP debate showed a party that exists outside the bounds of space and time
Bring on the outrage: Go ahead and hate on “coddled” college kids — just admit that anti-p.c. backlash is fueled by outrage, too
Arthur Chu
Outrage over "outrage culture" is still outrage—the fight is really over whose boundaries deserve respect
My rapist asked me to pray for him; I did what it took to stay alive
Lara Naughton
Unable to overpower him or escape, compassion became my only defense; it changed me as much as the assault
Marco Rubio is in big trouble: Why the GOP’s extremist fringe is mobilizing against him
Heather Digby Parton
The same forces that deposed Eric Cantor from the House last year are now showing signs of movement against Rubio
My sister did not pass away: This is the secret I need to share
Mary T. McCarthy
"We don't do suicides," the obituary editor told me. If we can't even say the word, how can we begin to stop them?
I wasn’t supposed to get breast cancer
Andrea Kremer
Cancer was something that happened to someone else. Then I got the call -- and my life became a before-and-after
I wanted to go as Daenerys Targaryen or The Bride — but, apparently, badass costumes are not for fat girls.
Laura Bogart
For years, the shapeless undead would be my go-to Halloween look. I wanted this Halloween to be different.
We were not wired for scary things : Adventures in the spooky science of thrills, chills and Halloween fear
Margee Kerr
Thrills mess with well-designed internal systems, violating our expectations and thumbing their nose at evolution
“Does anyone have a plan?” Here’s how we fix decades of overseas neo-conservative adventurism
Patrick L. Smith
We have accepted the horrors of American exceptionalism for too long. Here's a progressive foreign policy blueprint
Welcome to the new Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander is right — our justice system doubles as a racial caste system
Sean Beaudoin, Meg Worden
Mass incarceration isn't just a system of control, it's a political philosophy. An inmate-cum-author explains
When you’re “SNL’s” “weird” end-of-the-show guy, “You’re counting how many [sketches] you got on that year, hoping not to get let go”
Anna Silman
Salon talks to alum Mike O'Brien about lost SNL sketches, writing for the "5 to 1" and how Lorne still has his back
We’re still fighting George W. Bush’s battles: Syria, ISIS and the “worst foreign policy blunder” in American History
Peter Van Buren
Twelve years after the invasion of Iraq, the Middle East is more volatile than ever. Welcome to permanent war
Corporate America’s unforgivable new swindle: Leveling workers’ compensation to nothing
Michael Grabell, ProPublica, Howard Berkes, NPR
One Texas lawyer is helping companies write their own rules. It's a story that's playing out across the country
The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders
Adam Morris
Before Jonestown, before "Flavor Aid," the People's Temple leader found God in a Philadelphia-based religious sect
“We’re dying in here, miss, we’re dying!”: Horrors I saw in solitary confinement
Mary E. Buser
"If these inmates didn’t have mental health issues before they entered solitary, they do now"
Just admit Hillary won! The silly sexism of the Fox News/lefty smartypants crowd
Amanda Marcotte
"A man among boys?" This is the dumb commentary that happens when a woman is twice as good as the men on stage
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