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Paternity tests are big business because women aren’t trusted
Nara Milanich
The paternity testing industry traffics in doubt and mistrust of women
Rudy was Trump, and Trump is Rudy: How NYC in the Central Park Five years shaped history
Andrew O'Hehir
New York's darkest hour became "American Carnage": Before Giuliani became Trump's flunky, he was his role model
With cryptocurrency launch, Facebook sets its path toward becoming an independent nation
Jennifer Grygiel
The world’s newest country?
Smart Watch: Not all reality TV is trash! These unscripted shows are actually useful
Melanie McFarland
Sure, most reality and unscripted series are hot garbage. But there are a few that can actually make life better
America’s mental health system may be unfixable. Fortunately, there’s an alternative
LD Green
The mental health system stresses individual diagnostics and drugs. What if society itself is the problem?
China: enemy or competitor?
Edward Goldberg
The U.S. tangles with China in the economic space is a fierce, often dishonest economic competitor
Nancy Pelosi’s “Hamlet” moment
Richard Phillips
For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it comes down to this: “To Impeach or not to impeach. That is the question.”
Researchers say 8 hours of work a week is enough to feel fulfilled. So why won’t hustle culture die?
Keith A. Spencer
We need only 8 hours of work a week to feel useful and happy. This is bad news for Americans
Joe Biden’s “dear white people” strategy: Does he think he’s smarter than Obama?
Amanda Marcotte
Biden got wiped out in 2008, and spent eight years as Obama's veep. Somehow he thinks he can outdo his former boss
Reparations, “concentration camps” and culture war: GOP bad faith on race maxes out
Sophia Tesfaye
From Kyle Kashuv to AOC, Republicans want to turn all discussion of race into pointless culture-war debates
Arturo Castro’s “Alternatino”: Comedy that’s “leaving a little blood in the water”
Melanie McFarland
Salon talks Comedy Central's newest star about good intentions and sketch comedy from a Latinx perspective
Brewing a “Coffeehouse Resistance”: Hopeful activism that’s organized and energized
David Masciotra
Salon talks to Buunni's Sarina Prabasi about Ethiopian coffee culture in NYC and being an immigrant in Trump's U.S.
Why do conservatives hate Oberlin so much?
Keith A. Spencer
How did the right get swept into a delusion that the college is a fount of bomb-slinging, purple-haired leftists?
Discussing Alaska’s long history of sexual violence is one step toward seeking solutions
Beena Raghavendran, Adriana Gallardo
70 people gathered in Kotzebue for a public conversation on a well-known but rarely discussed statewide problem
How many more viral cop videos do we need to see?
D. Watkins
It's almost routine now: police mistreat a civilian, the video footage goes viral. When will the culture change?
Bob Dylan in Trumpland: The workingman in “Modern Times”
Timothy Hampton
Exposing the toll of dispossession, Dylan’s songs suggest why art in our own moment needs to account for suffering
The Trump administration’s war on federal workers
Sarah Lahm
The Trump administration has AFGE in its sights.
Pete Buttigieg: “I have every confidence that American voters… will not discriminate”
Matthew Rozsa
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg discusses whether homophobia will hurt his presidential candidacy in 2020
What Orwell’s “1984” tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
Stephen Groening
The dominant reading of Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984” has been that it was a dire prediction of what could be
Climate action could avert hundreds of heat-related deaths in these 15 U.S. cities
Justine Calma
One of the deadliest threats posed by the climate crisis is extreme heat.
Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona
Erin Keane
While my father died in a galaxy far, far away, "Return of the Jedi" began filming a few miles from my house
The racist roots of American policing
Connie Hassett-Walker
From slave patrols to traffic stops: a new slogan for an old problem.
When Americans were communists
Bhaskar Sunkara
For a brief moment in the 20th century, communists were at the forefront of fights for justice and equality
Why Richard Holbrooke leaves no legacy for the 2020 Democrats
Jefferson Morley
Former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke has had a long, winding career. But his legacy is little.
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