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How Netflix and cable companies are going to ruin the Internet for everybody
Dustin Rowles
The looming Time Warner/Comcast merger is forcing major streaming services to pay up — and that's bad for all of us
Doctors can be fat-shamers too
SAYANTANI DASGUPTA
A troubling Washington Post essay reminds us medicine is not a moralizing stick with which to beat our patients
New sanctions are driving Russians to drink
Jean MacKenzie
An expanded menu of punitive measures is already having some effect on Moscow
Academic journal bows to pressure from climate deniers
Lindsay Abrams
A study linking deniers to conspiracy theorists was retracted -- despite being academically sound
Barbie vs. Mrs. Potato Head
Hayley Krischer
How playing with different kinds of toys can change girls' outlook on life
Bye, Fred Phelps! Thanks for everything!
Tracy Clark-Flory
Some are celebrating the Westboro Baptist Church leader's death, but most are showing a kindness that he never did
Alan Cumming’s fight against circumcision
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Alan Cumming is the latest to voice displeasure with the practice. But comparing it to female mutilation is wrong
Google tells NSA to step off, announces it is encrypting Gmail
Sarah Gray
"Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email"
Health insurers’ greedy lie: How the media’s helping them harm Obamacare
Simon Maloy
Because the press takes them at their word, yet another Obamacare doom-and-gloom story is picking up steam
Measles outbreak! Vaccine trutherism now officially a public health crisis
Lindsay Abrams
Measles are making a comeback. This is why it's so dangerous to laugh off Jenny McCarthy and Kristin Cavallari
Twitter ignores Snowden, won’t encrypt direct messages
Sarah Gray
The tech giant is generally known for its security, but sources say it will drop a key encryption plan
CO2 levels reach a record high in record time
Lindsay Abrams
Atmospheric carbon levels have already crossed the 400ppm milestone this year
Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight is getting some high-profile bad reviews
Elias Isquith
Mike Allen, Tyler Cowen and Paul Krugman are all less than impressed thus far with Silver's new venture
Anti-vaccination nuts strike again: Why MTV star Kristin Cavallari is the new Jenny McCarthy
Daniel D'Addario
The former "Hills" starlet doesn't want to vaccinate her kids. Why that's a bigger problem than it looks
Lapham’s Quarterly: America has become an “armed circus”
Lewis H. Lapham
How the tumultuous political movements of the 1960s led to the expansion and domination of the surveillance state
You are more than a sexual fetish — but online dating sites might not think so
Patrick Tucker
Not meeting the right person online? The problem might be that Match and OkCupid profiles reduce your personality
Andrew Ross Sorkin is going to make a show about how Wall Street is pretty neat and full of cool dudes
Alex Pareene
If you want an unflinching look at the corruption of the financial industry, this isn't the right guy to hire
Would your obituary go viral?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A Delaware man gains fame in his final message
25 biggest moments in Internet history
Jessica Phelan
The Web turned 25 this week. To celebrate, we look back on some of its most important milestones
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “When you’re not a white male writing about white male things then somehow your work has to mean something”
Anna North
The author talks to Salon about "Americanah," the VIDA count and whether she's a political writer
Propaganda, lies and the New York Times: Everything you really need to know about Ukraine
Patrick L. Smith
The media keeps buying the American spin on what's happening in Ukraine. Let's cut through the fog
Say goodbye to public schools: Diane Ravitch warns Salon some cities will soon have none
Josh Eidelson
"Why destroy public education so that a handful can boast they have a charter school in addition to their yacht?"
Epic battle between Tesla and Chris Christie ends in defeat for the electric car company
Lindsay Abrams
The company attacked the N.J. governor on Twitter after he pushed "anti-Tesla" legislation
The war on black intellectuals: What (mostly) white men keep getting wrong about public scholarship
Brittney Cooper
From Dylan Byers to Nick Kristof, many media voices are blind to black women academics. There's a reason for that
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