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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
Joseph Ellis: 1776, the summer America was born
Joseph J. Ellis
Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Ellis on Washington, Adams and the months when soldiers and statesmen forged America
A modest proposal to save Detroit
Toby Barlow
Banks – not the city – should be forced to auction their art to pay off debt
Mike Huckabee: “We’re now even seeing television commercials portraying same-sex couples”
Katie Halper
The former governor (who's been called a "model" for Republicans on LGBT rights) doesn't like what he sees on TV
Jesse Friedman: “Forget it? I can never forget it. It never, ever goes away”
Trevor Bach
Jesse Friedman has gone through hell for a crime he says he didn't commit. Now he might get his life back
Never tell anyone what I just did
Dominic Holden
My ex and I were having the perfect weekend fling -- until one small mistake left me stranded in my underwear
Mainstream America paid in peanuts and cracker jacks
Michael Winship
The poor wages of the San Francisco Giants' concession workers highlight this country's growing income inequality
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