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“Mad Men” on drugs
Nelle Engoron
Roger takes the leap into LSD, while Peggy and Don dramatically discover their own dependencies
No sympathy for the creative class
Scott Timberg
Taxpayers bail out Wall Street and Detroit. But there's no help, or Springsteen anthem, for struggling creatives
Surveillance State evils
Glenn Greenwald
35 years ago, a leading liberal Senator issued a grave warning about allowing the NSA to spy domestically
The horrific ramifications of the Gulf oil spill
Lisa Kaas Boyle
Two years after the BP oil spill, deformed fish point to lasting environmental and health consequences
Black Dahlia beginnings
Michael Dooley
A crime historian explains how Elizabeth Short's makeup informed her famed post-murder persona
Tuning out bad abortion laws
Irin Carmon
One woman's idea on how to counteract invasive ultrasound and sonogram rules: Hand out iPods at Planned Parenthood
America’s drone sickness
Glenn Greenwald
The U.S. slaughters at will, then shields its actions from all forms of judicial and democratic accountability
Drug-personality misconceptions
Jacqueline Detwiler
Alcoholic writers? Coke-head stockbrokers? The links between personality type and addiction are largely overblown
Mass killer’s American pen pal
Gerald Traufetter
23-year-old from Massachusetts outs himself as fan during trial: "I dream of meeting Breivik"
“Don’t Say Gay” bill advances
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tennessee tries to eliminate homosexuality from education in an effort to make it disappear
When your child is gay
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Kids are coming out at younger and younger ages -- and parents need to help them. Here's how
Is the right really breaking up with its racists?
Alex Pareene
The National Review fired two bigots -- but don't expect it to part with the idea that race determines intelligence
Backstage at the Final Four
Brian Weinberg
As media explodes, up close with the Twitter wars, massive egos, fancy buffets and flirty reporters at the big game
Preserving history, or the 1 percent?
Will Doig
New historic districts seem less interested in saving a neighborhood's character than driving up property values
Obama’s new Wall Street foes
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
Former allies are turning on the president now that he wants to close gaping tax loopholes for the 1 percent
Romney mum on labor leaks
Josh Eidelson
The GOP candidate has not fired an advisor who allegedly received leaked docs from a member of the NLRB
The man the State Dept. wants silenced
Glenn Greenwald
Guest Post: Peter Van Buren wrote a critical book about Iraq. Now the State Department is waging war against him
The martyrdom of Ann Romney
Steve Kornacki
She wasn’t really the victim of a smear by an “Obama adviser,” but the right will treat her like one anyway
Dating while disabled
Tracy Clark-Flory
A controversial new U.K. show follows disabled singles in their quest for love. Is it exploitative or progressive?
A Salon troll on the couch
Pauline Gaines
Angry comments are one thing. But what's behind the urge to slam writers with psychiatric diagnoses?
Goldman Sachs says divided government probably best
Alex Pareene
High-priced global strategists support divided rule for deficit reduction
John Derbyshire, racist hack, gets canned
Jim Newell
John Derbyshire has been writing racist screeds for years. So why did no one notice until last week?
Amazon’s $1 million secret
Alexander Zaitchik
By quietly supporting small presses and literary nonprofits, is Amazon backing book culture or buying off critics?
Bravo plans ‘Silicon Valley’ reality show
Salon Staff
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