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“Pose” and the home of the brave: Season 2 ends on a brilliant high note
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The second season of Ryan Murphy's drag ball culture drama is a salute to what the land of the free truly means
Imagining a free Palestine should be commonplace — that’s why I wrote the novel “Siegebreakers”
Justin Podur
The siege of Gaza is crushing the people who live under it, and it is crushing all of our imaginations.
One year ago, Burning Man’s sex assault and labor issues were exposed. Has anything changed?
Nicole Karlis
A blinded volunteer left to suffer. An ignorance around sexual assault. Will Burning Man face its demons?
Peyote and mescaline aficionados who used drugs to open new doors
Phillip Smith
A brief history of psychonauts who changed history
The uneasy alliance between aluminum and warfare
Mimi Sheller
From hand grenades to nuclear bombs, modern weaponry across the world rests on aluminum-based technology.
Why Jeffrey Epstein surrounded himself with scientists
Keith A. Spencer
The sex offender-financier's scientific connections don't bode well for the academic culture of science
A border agent’s hateful career and the crime that finally ended it
A.C. Thompson
Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant.
QAnon is the conspiracy theory that won’t die: Here’s what they believe, and why they’re wrong
Matthew Rozsa
To better understand the QAnon conspiracy theory, Salon spoke with Travis View, host of the QAnon Anonymous podcast
Pat Buchanan back on PBS, really? Why we don’t need a “McLaughlin Group” revival now
Melanie McFarland
"The McLaughlin Group" set a standard for shouty, "newsy" debate shows. We don't need it or Buchanan back on PBS
Kwame Onwuachi: Inside the top chef’s culinary comeback story and the new film based on his life
D. Watkins
“I always, always thought my life would be played in a movie . . . but I didn’t know how I was going to get there”
Inside the political deadlock of establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean
Seth Sykora-Bodie
Politics and culture collide as signatories argue over preserving fisheries and meeting conservation objectives
The case that made an ex-ICE attorney realize the government was relying on false “evidence”
Melissa del Bosque
Years after quitting ICE, Laura Peña returned to the fight — defending migrants she’d once prosecuted
Alaska becomes target for GOP’s infamous budget mercenary
Lindsay Bennett
The University of Alaska system's 2020 budget has been cut by 41 percent.
There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye
Alicia Eler
The moral panic around teen selfies is old fear dressed in new tech. Selfies aren't just narcissistic overshares
Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass
Tom Engelhardt
It's as difficult today to imagine movies without American heroes as to think of a luncheonette without Coca-Cola.
Quentin Tarantino’s artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”
Allen Barra, Margaret Barra
There's a lot Quentin Tarantino can't do in his movies. But it's always worth examining closely what he can
Seth MacFarlane is a major Democratic donor. What does his comedy say about his politics?
Matthew Rozsa
MacFarlane donates millions to liberal and left-wing campaigns and causes. Where do his money and his mouth meet?
Out of the ashes of Puerto Rico’s economy emerges a promising currency for all
Valerie Vande Panne
After recent political turmoil and government turnover, Puerto Rico's economy might be in for a transformation
50 years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and fears of a nation
Mark Clague
Hendrix’s searing national anthem at Woodstock found a way to fuse protest and optimism
The U.S.’s culture of violence is killing us all
César Chelala
Although violent incidents occur in other countries, they are not as frequent — or as deadly — as in the U.S.
The U.N.’s bleak view of the planet’s future
Terry H. Schwadron
And the U.S. is incapable of even discussing the climate crisis, much less addressing it.
Did banning porn make Tumblr worthless?
Nicole Karlis
The social network's adult-content ban came at a great cost to the community
Rep. Steve King: Abortion should be illegal to protect “little black babies”
Shira Tarlo
King has faced mounting backlash this week for arguing abortion should be illegal, even in cases of rape and incest
The power of “Good Boys,” a raunchy pre-teen comedy that’s mature for its age
Matthew Rozsa
"Good Boys" isn't just laugh-out-loud funny, but it understands boys and has a great message for them
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