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What’s it like to shower with Trump? A former classmate recalls Donald Trump’s military school days

Michael Garofalo
Trump's "bullying style strikes a familiar chord" with the school's culture, a classmate writes in The Daily Beast

What Donald Trump really represents: America’s addiction to competition

Alfie Kohn
Much has already been made of Donald Trump's meteoric political rise. But not enough has been said about this

My body doesn’t need a cure: Sizeism, classism and the big-business hustle of the clean-eating industry

Laura Bogart
Healthy living has become a new mode of conspicuous consumption, thin bodies emblematic of one’s social standing

We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction

Lee Konstantinou
Irony, once the hipster's favorite weapon, had become exhausted and rusted into cynicism. Enter "Infinite Jest"

The queering of Pee-wee Herman: How the gay icon redefines queer boundaries beyond sexuality

Nico Lang
If the world around this PG hero in an R-rated world is fabulously gay, Pee-wee still hasn’t the slightest clue

What most Americans don’t know about yoga

Andrea Jain, Michelle Goldberg
Is the discipline a form of cultural appropriation? And is it even beholden to a tradition? Two experts weigh in

We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help

Natalie Y. Moore
Violence in Chicago is a symptom of racial and economic segregation -- issues that must be addressed

Donald Trump’s reign of bullsh*t: He’s not lying to us, he’s just completely full of it

Eldar Sarajlic
There's a difference between a liar and a bullshitter -- and it helps explain the essence of Donald Trump

“Death is not always the worst outcome”: We’re so good at saving babies, and so bad at respecting the limits of medicine and the rights of families

Phoebe Danziger
I chose not to bring my son to term. Here's what judges and politicians should know about stories like mine

For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism

Christopher Emdin
How power dynamics & cultural clashes stemming from whiteness work against young people of color in urban schools

“I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews

Shane Cashman
The Jews in my family are Jewish in our own way. We've found our own loopholes to mitigate tradition with modernity

Ethan Hawke on coping with failure, success and insecurity: “Sometimes I feel that my whole life has been a war with my nervous system”

Sean Cannon
Salon talks to Ethan Hawke about managing pain, Chet Baker, and why he tries to "spiritually marry" his directors

“David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s

Dennis Lim
That was an actual test-card response to Lynch's creepy '80s classic, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year

It wasn’t “politically correct” when W. said it: Why Trump’s Islamophobia is a dangerous American bellwether

Conor Lynch
The right has called Obama weak for preaching tolerance toward Muslims. What about when Bush did the same?

J.K. Rowling’s rejection letters are a sorry statement on the future of book publishing

Jenny Pierson
The "Harry Potter" author calls them "inspiration" but for whom? The industry is contracting and homogenous as ever

The myth of the good victim: As an American facing street harassment abroad, I wondered what it meant to be a “good victim”

Patricia Grisafi
"The moment that man took his penis out, my fantasies of an ideal study abroad experience in Florence disappeared"

Mike Pence’s sadistic abortion law: Indiana passes draconian anti-choice bill geared towards humiliating and bankrupting women who have abortions

Amanda Marcotte
Gov. Mike Pence signs an omnibus abortion bill designed to degrade women while raising the cost of abortion

Bridget Jones is not a millennial: The war over “millennials in the workplace” stories hits peak absurdity

Scott Timberg
There's nothing wrong with a generational assessment, but can we declare a moratorium on these stories now?

We’re not taking Islamophobia seriously: This cancerous racism is on the rise — and it’s even more dangerous than you think

Qasim Rashid
After the Brussels attack and others, anti-Muslim anger is surging. Why aren't people taking this more seriously?

Ted Cruz’s sex rumors: Of all the reasons Cruz shouldn’t be president, infidelity alone shouldn’t be one of them

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cruz is the worst! But attacks on his private life also contribute to a toxic culture around sex and privacy

“I was a hope-I-die-before-I-get-old kind of guy”: Bob Mould opens up about his career’s third act, writing through loss and the presidential election “circus”

Eric R. Danton
Salon talks to the music veteran about his new album out Friday, life in San Francisco and his 37-year music career

Why Americans are so much more obsessed with big breasts than the rest of the world

Carrie Weisman
No, women with large breasts aren't necessarily more sexual, and they're tired of hearing, "Are those real?"

How to get screwed by the tech industry: Here’s what happens when a foot in the door becomes a ticket out of town

Scott Timberg
When Lyft and other Silicon Valley darlings ship customer service jobs out, upward mobility for employees suffers

Voters accuse Arizona of election fraud as Phoenix mayor requests federal investigation

Ben Norton
Polling places were cut by 70%, leading #AZElectionFraud to trend on Twitter & a petition to get 100,000 signatures
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