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Rush: How I learned to forgive — and even like — the most hated band of all time
Rob Sheffield
They're the most hated band ever. Yes, classic rock radio played them to death in the '80s, but it's time to let go
ComicCon for Jane Austen fans!
Deborah Yaffe
Welcome to JANSA's annual meeting, where Austen lovers divide into Team Willoughby and Team Brandon and ask WWJD
Shakespeare defined our concept of nothingness
Daniel Tammet
"If it be nothing I shall not need spectacles"
Your blood turns green: Why the right can’t derail the Girl Scouts
Sloane Crosley
Boy Scouts can't avoid controversy, but conservatives can't divide Girl Scouts. A cross-country trip explains why
Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle: “I’m not interested in back in the day. We are always in the present moment”
Mike Appelstein
Salon exclusive: John Darnielle's rare look back at Mountain Goats history with reissue of "All Hail West Texas"
White music fans are afraid of difference
Katie Ryder
When Postal Service fans get aggressively upset over a black opening act, that's evidence of a bigger problem
Demetri Martin: “There’s something about trying to make stuff that you admire, even if you can’t pull it off”
Molly Ringwald
In a wide-ranging interview with Molly Ringwald, the comedian/actor/writer/artist shares his wonder of creation
Corporate sell-outs exploit a secret new gimmick
David Sirota
Craven senators Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch want to shield authors of toxic tax giveaways from the public view
Twitter must confront its bullies
Mary Elizabeth Williams
An outbreak of misogyny over Jane Austen shows how toxic social media can get
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
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