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When dictators tweet
Jennifer Koons
Arab despots are starting to use Facebook and Twitter to strike back against democracy activists
Doubling down on 9/11
Karen Greenberg
A decade after the attacks, our national security regime continues to grow ever more punitive and secretive
The trial of Mike Daisey
Andrew O'Hehir, Laura Miller, Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon writers debate the backlash around "This American Life's" retraction scandal
The making of a blockbuster
Laura Miller
Salon exclusive: The behind-the-scenes story of the readers and booksellers who launched the Hunger Games franchise
That’s not the original Hulk!
Steven Brower
Even in books dedicated to his work, famed comic artist Jack Kirby's drawings never appear on the cover
Goldman on trial
Lynn Parramore
Reactions to an employee's damning editorial speak to the firm's power and the public rage over its moral lapses
Home-schooled and illiterate
Kristin Rawls
The religious right calls it the "responsible" choice, but for some kids it means isolation with little education
Bishops seek liberty to impose birth control dogma
Sarah Posner
Catholic leaders redouble efforts to deny birth control to non-believing employees
No Plan B for Native American women
Salon Staff
Despite being at exceptionally high risk for sexual assault, many have little access to emergency contraception
American Morlocks: Monsters of a murderous Afghan policy
Nima Shirazi
The latest killing of civilians by an American soldier isn't an outlier -- it's a reflection of our war policies
There’s money in the white savior complex
Jamilah King
Kony 2012 shows that painting Africans as helpless victims remains popular, profitable and deeply problematic
The right cover for “Lolita”
Michael Silverberg
After years of soft-core designs, a book collects 60 new versions that do justice to the novel's dark complexities
The trouble with “crowd-sourced intervention”
Paul Mutter
The happy story of the Kony viral video obscures the realities of the Pentagon in Africa
To reclaim or reject “slut”?
Tracy Clark-Flory
The Limbaugh controversy is a perfect example of the complexities of reappropriating, or renouncing, the slur
Web Star Born: Kony Video Gets Millions Of Views
Salon Staff
Washington’s new antiwar movement
Jordan Michael Smith
Two "realist" scholars lead the resistance to the Israeli campaign to drag the U.S. into another Mideast conflict
Franzen doesn’t get Twitter
Roxane Gay
The author calls it "the ultimate irresponsible medium." But he doesn't understand why people actually tweet
UN top torture official denounces Bradley Manning’s detention
Glenn Greenwald
"Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" and "excessive and prolonged isolation"
Uncertain Risks Torment Japanese In Nuclear Zone
Salon Staff
Cruising the street view
Lucy McKeon
A blog uses the Google maps function to scope out cute guys. Is it fun, art -- or a creepy invasion of privacy?
White conservative manhood crisis
Salon Staff
The recent GOP assault on women's rights stems from the same fears as the racist attacks on Obama
Limbaugh Advertisers Keep Heading For The Exits
Salon Staff
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