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How I learned to love “adulting” — the word, if not the act
Rachel Kramer Bussel
I love being an adult, but having my act together is often an aspirational goal
High times: How will budtenders and trimmigrants fare if pot is legalized?
Judith Lewis Mernit
Unfair labor conditions are already common at the medical marijuana farm
Bewildered in “Bloom County”: How its long hiatus transformed the still-beloved comic
Scott Timberg
Berkeley Breathed: "There’s a spiritual context to it all, although I really hate that I said the word ‘spiritual’"
Robert Reich: Don’t criticize Europeans for standing up to Apple — thank them
Robert Reich
Rather than another tax amnesty, we need a crackdown on corporate tax avoidance like Europe did for Apple
Robert Reich: Trumpism will continue after Trump loses, but can any good come out of the wreckage?
Robert Reich
Trump needs attention the way normal people need food
My face is catfish bait: I’m the “40-year-old man” face of deceptive online dating — and I think I know why they do it
William Dameron
My selfie has been swiped for more fake profiles than I can count. It's gross deception—but I've been tempted, too
Robert Reich: A single-payer health care system is inevitable
Robert Reich
The real problem is in the structure of private markets for health insurance
Finito, comments: Goodbye to the loudest drunk in NPR’s online bar
Alicia Shepard
Once seen as a way to democratize the media, news site commenting sections have become playgrounds for nasty trolls
The alt-right attacks sci-fi: How the Hugo Awards got hijacked by Trumpian-style culture warriors
Amanda Marcotte
The fight over the Hugos reflects the larger cultural struggle that led to Trump — and the trolls aren't winning
The case for a single-payer health plan: Aetna shows how insurers are avoiding the sick
Robert Reich
Structure of private markets for health insurance creates incentives to avoid sick people and attract healthy ones
I don’t want “mom friends”: As a new parent, I need my old friends now more than ever
Jessica Machado
They tell women to befriend other women with kids the same age — but strangers are no substitute for lasting bonds
“We could be really experimental”: Why Gawker went down and why we’ll hate ourselves for missing it
Scott Timberg
Nasty and unethical or fearless First Amendment champions? Nick Denton's Gawker was always a bit of both.
Debunking genetic sexual attraction: Incest by any other name is still incest
Amanda Marcotte
Stories that minimize incest by calling it "genetic sexual attraction" are peddling pseudoscience
Louisiana’s quiet crisis: Cable news and the folly of disaster porn coverage
Sean Illing
The worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy is happening right now. So why is the media downplaying it?
WATCH: In his own words, Donald Trump decimates his just released foreign policy plan
Sophia Tesfaye
In a brutal 83-second clip, "Morning Joe" highlights Trump's tremendous flip-flops on ISIS, Iraq and Libya
The danger of the right’s noise machine: Years of misinformation led to Trump’s rise
Heather Digby Parton
"Where do you go to have any sense of the truth?" right-wing radio host Charlie Sykes told MSNBC
Robert Reich: Hillary Clinton will need Bernie Sanders’s political revolution to make things happen
Robert Reich
The only way Clinton's ideas will make it in real life is if the public is organized and mobilized behind them
Olympic men stand up to sexism, too — because that’s not just women’s work
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The coverage of the games has been clueless, but athletes Andy Murray and Adam van Koeverden get it right
“There is a concern if people can be focused”: How the gig economy destroyed workers’ 9-to-5 attention spans
Brendan Gauthier
In our Salon Talks roundtable, host Carrie Sheffield sat down with Courtney Spritzer and author Michael Woodward
Evan McMullin’s presidential run could potentially blow up the Republican Party
Matthew Sheffield
The former CIA and Goldman Sachs employee just might manage to destroy the GOP's shrinking electoral coalition
Meet the Pokémoms: Obsession with playing Pokémon Go has brought families closer together
Mary Emily O'Hara
These parents are catching all the Pokémon in their neighborhoods and will soon surpass the kids
A little goes a long way: Why a small tax on Wall Street trades is a good idea
Robert Reich
Americans pay sales taxes on all sorts of things, yet Wall Street traders pay no sales tax on stocks and bonds
13 music memoirs we’d like to read in 2017 by women and artists of color
Annie Zaleski
From Springsteen to Collins, this fall's music memoirs are dominated by dudes. Here's a wish list for next round
Dareen Tatour, Palestinian poet imprisoned by Israel for social media posts, shares her story
Ben Norton
Exclusive interview with Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour from her home, where she remains under house arrest
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