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We like women better when they fall: “Me Before You” stumbles into the same old “relatable” trap

Nico Lang
Female klutzes haunt the romantic film landscape, as movies indulge in the ritual humbling of beautiful women

Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18th-century dissectible wax women

Kim Kelly
Salon talks to the author of a new book on the Enlightenment's most famous memento mori about religion, death & art

Stanford swimmer attacker isn’t alone: Sexual violence against women prevalent in university sports cultures

Erin Coulehan
Earlier studies showed links between student-athletes and sexual coercion—a new study extends the connection

Algorithms aren’t the future of good TV: To make the next “Fargo” or “The Americans,” networks need humans

Scott Timberg
FX head John Landgraf makes a compelling case for people to stay in charge of artistic programming

Why can’t Sanders admit defeat? He’s looking more and more foolish as he denies Hillary’s victory

Amanda Marcotte
Sanders has lost the primary on every level, making his insistence that he should win anyway subtly sexist

Stanford rapist’s father issues despicable plea for leniency: “A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action”

Mary Elizabeth Williams
This statement to the judge at Brock Turner's sentencing is a stunning example of rape culture in action

The rich should embrace Bernie: America’s plutocrats have much to gain from Sanders’ platform

Conor Lynch
To preserve their power, the 1% needs lower classes to thrive — which is something Bernie can best deliver

The myth of universal beauty: Actually, we aren’t all beautiful—and that’s OK

JoAnna Novak
Inspirational songs and ads want us to believe we're all model-perfect—but can't we be empowered without beauty?

“Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel

David Means, Luke Mogelson
Two great writers -- one veteran, one newcomer -- discuss breaking out of cubbyholes and pondering first novels

Drug-happy doctors are unwittingly creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs: How overprescription puts us all at risk

Jalal Baig
Our antibiotic-dispensing culture risks rendering crucial drugs ineffective — the result could be deadly

Our United States of Fear: Meet the right’s ridiculous new bogeyman

David Masciotra
We're still No. 1 in panic. You see it in politics, the presidential race, education -- and especially the media

The right’s long war on hope: How the GOP manufactures apathy, cynicism and rage

Steve Almond
GOP's target is bigger than liberalism or Hillary Clinton, and Dems are running against something bigger than Trump

Cake and death: Why we need to get together and talk about dying

Tiffany Hearsey
We're not comfortable with mortality—but this growing trend can help take some of the mystery and fear out of death

We can’t have more of the same: The very real dangers of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy

Patrick L. Smith
Trump may well be dangerous. But know what you're getting with Hillary: American hegemony that's hated worldwide

Killing with kindness: “Lady Dynamite” and “Kimmy Schmidt” prove nice women can be funny and complex, too

Arielle Bernstein
In the boisterous cocktail of sex, swagger & self-deprecation that defines so much comedy today, these 2 stand out

Birtherism and bigotry: These are the vile impulses driving voters to Trump — stop thinking it’s anything else

Heather Digby Parton
Trump backers want to recapture an America that no longer exists, one that puts whites at the top of the world

It could happen to any one of us: Teaching in a culture of violence

Lisa M. O'Neill
The UCLA tragedy is the worst nightmare for teachers like myself

Neoliberalism gave us Trump: A dying America is raging against the capitalist machine

Steve Fraser
The U.S. economy has left millions on the outside looking in. Some have turned to socialism, others to a demagogue

Make “Ghostbusters” great again? Reboot culture, male rage and the pathology of nostalgia

Scott Timberg
To understand cries of "you're killing my childhood!" let's go back to when nostalgia was considered a disease

Fact, fiction and tangled “Roots”: How a family history that wasn’t entirely true broke through America’s biggest lies

Andrew O'Hehir
From Alex Haley's book to a culture-shaping miniseries, and now an action-adventure remake. How much of it is true?

Tegan and Sara’s call to arms: “The worst thing that could happen right now in the LGBT community is that we become apathetic”

Erin Lyndal Martin
Salon talks to Tegan Quin about LGBT politics, ambitious women, Justin Trudeau & the new album "Love You to Death"

Religious extremism in the age of Trump: Empowered radicals are pushing harder than ever to legalize discrimination

Heather Digby Parton
The Religious Right is gearing up for more assaults on LGBT and gay rights in state houses around the U.S.

Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking

Camille Paglia
The media covers for Hillary on her email scandal while Trump gallops through the non-stop artillery barrage

Women are fleeing the church, and it’s not hard to understand why

Patricia Miller
New Pew Research Center data offer further evidence that conservatism is chasing women from organized religion
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