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Hillary binge watches “The Good Wife,” Trump’s fave is “The Apprentice,” Bernie played a rabbi in a B-movie comedy: Take a look at the 2016 candidates’ pop culture tastes
Peter Cooper
Watch this video to see what the 2016 candidates are binge watching — or starring in themselves
Steve Jobs, messiah to jerks: Are we worshiping innovation, or just the freedom to be an a**hole?
Christine Jun
Our ongoing deification of the late Apple CEO encourages terrible behavior in the pursuit of power and wealth
My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong
Rani Neutill
I believed in trigger warnings when I taught a course on sex and film. Then they drove me out of the academy
Carol Queen is a fan of Amy Schumer’s “frisky” feminism: She’s “standing up here with a level of swagger that people expect from a fellow when he’s out on the town”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the Good Vibrations sexologist on her new book and what "sex-positive" really means
She was guilty of being a black girl: The mundane terror of police violence in American schools
Brittney Cooper
The video of a South Carolina police officer assaulting a young students tells you everything you need to know
Ivan Reitman on directing the original “Ghostbusters” and why fans will be “very, very happy” with the female-centric reboot
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon talks to the director of the legendary 1984 comedy about his original cast and the upcoming remake
Greil Marcus on music writing through 5 presidencies, fighting the Gorgon of Thatcherism and getting to the heart of the “authorless song”
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the music and culture critic about "Real Life Rock"
Yet another Yi-Fen Chou: Secret white guy “Jesús Ángel García” apologizes for adopting a Latino pen name
Scott Timberg
The still-anonymous author of a "transgressive novel" owns up to cultural appropriation on the indie-lit scene
HBO is adapting Cheryl Strayed’s “Dear Sugar” columns: Here are her 5 most essential pieces of advice
Anna Silman
She'll reunite with "Wild" stars Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon for an HBO series called "Tiny Beautiful Things”
White America will ignore this video: The hideous & predictable violence of our schools, our legal system, our society
Chauncey DeVega
The police officer who assaulted a black student on camera will be treated like an outlier — but he isn't
Obama’s stunning reversal on standardized testing: Why his latest comments could spell doom for “reformers”
David Dayen
The president came out last weekend against the overemphasis on testing, breaking with 20 years of precedent
SXSW’s Gamergate fiasco: Canceling a panel on fighting abuse is cowardice — and it doesn’t solve anything
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The conference claims threats of violence led to a tough choice — but where's the apology?
Hillary baits Bernie beautifully: “Shouting,” sexism — and the simple sorry that would make Sanders look less jerky
Amanda Marcotte
Hillary's joke resonates because Bernie raises his voice all the time. He should acknowledge it -- but he won't
The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy
David Masciotra
With a new biography out and a recent documentary still making waves, it's time to consider Gore Vidal's legacy
Our new late-night wars: How Hillary, Bernie and the Donald are battling it out for bedtime TV dominance — and who’s winning so far
Sonia Saraiya
Election 2016's late-night cycle is well underway — who are Trump, Clinton, and Sanders in front of the camera?
Don’t panic, bacon lovers: Why the new report on cancer and processed meats doesn’t mean a total pork ban
Scott Timberg
A skeptical health researcher discusses WHO research linking some meats to cancer
No pity for the Bush family: They built the modern Republican Frankenstein
Amanda Marcotte
Bushes pandered to wingnuts for decades. Remember Willie Horton? Now they pretend not to recognize party they built
Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word
Ellen Berrey
"Diversity" sounds polite and hopeful. It's how we talk when we can't talk about race, or when whites get nervous
We are the evil Empire now: This is how “Star Wars” grows up — by confronting what it means to become a traitor to your own beliefs
Arthur Chu
Today's rebels are tomorrow's establishment — just ask the Tea Party. The new "Star Wars" needs to deal with that
David Mitchell is over the genre wars: “Confining an entire genre as being unworthy of your attention is a bizarre act of self-harm”
Scott Timberg
The acclaimed author of "Cloud Atlas" talks about his new horror-inspired "Slade House," which began on Twitter
My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare
Mary Mahoney
I was a naive teenager, desperate for belonging. But my "home" for 30 years turned out to be a house of horrors
Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right
Silas House
Three cheers for "Big Stone Gap," for destroying Hollywood's persistent hillbilly stereotypes
Welcome to the new Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander is right — our justice system doubles as a racial caste system
Sean Beaudoin, Meg Worden
Mass incarceration isn't just a system of control, it's a political philosophy. An inmate-cum-author explains
Bill O’Reilly at his most odious: Everything Fox News gets horribly wrong about rape culture and sexual assault
Kate Harding
"Being kidnapped by a pedophile: it’s basically like summer camp that never ends, if you ask Bill O’Reilly"
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