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Rachel Dolezal, Sunday update: Reports from inside her race and culture college courses. Also, Rob Lowe jumps in
Salon Staff
Dolezal reportedly told Hispanic student she didn't look Hispanic enough to lead an awareness conversation. More...
“The Wire” is right about everything: David Simon nailed the police, media, politicians
Kristin Henning
With each year, the show's moral clarity and portrayal of rotted-out institutions/ambitious climbers stings more
Back off, thinsplainers! We’ve heard it all before
Harriet Brown, Sarai Walker
Don't feign concern for fat people's health to cover your disdain -- and no, "fat" doesn't have to be an insult
Aasif Mandvi: “Hollywood’s heroes are still Caucasian”
Haroon Moghul
The "Daily Show" alumnus on diversity in mainstream movies, Jon Stewart's departure and his new show on HBO
The power and the glory of Dusty Rhodes: The “American Dream” who transcended pro wrestling’s racial divide
Chauncey DeVega
Dusty Rhodes was a legend in the ring and a preacher on the microphone. What's more, he was also a Black icon
Beyond “Storage Wars” of the 1 percent: A not-so-radical proposal for the art museum of the future
Alan Michael Parker
A close reading of the new Whitney Museum reveals missed opportunities to connect more people with art
The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed
Tom Clynes
Gladwell's practice theory is only partly right. A host of things must line up for the would-be prodigy to thrive
White panic, white denial: The racial prehistory of the McKinney pool party that white America can’t let go
Andrew O'Hehir
Hey white people: If we can get over our twisted relationship with the past, the future might actually be better
Bill Maher blasts McKinney pool party cop: This is the “high school loser” we need to weed out
Colin Gorenstein
Maher says these "types" want to re-litigate their sh*tty adolescences by being cops
Bill Maher and Jeff Ross rip into Jerry Seinfeld’s anti-PC tirade: “If Jerry Seinfeld is too politically incorrect for you, maybe you should look in the mirror”
Colin Gorenstein
The two suggest PC culture has gone too far when liberals are offended by the least "edgy" comic in the game
The perverse obsessions of right-wing patriarchal Christians
Valerie Tarico
They're hardly unique to the Duggars. A fascination with procreation can be traced all the way back to the Iron Age
Elijah Wood’s guide to clean living: “The sensual things in life are what I’m attracted to”
Gary M. Kramer
Salon talks to the "Lord of the Rings" star about vice, poets, and the vices of poets in "Set Fire to the Stars"
Stop making excuses for Rachel Dolezal: The Spokane NAACP official’s fraud is unforgivable
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The chapter president allegedly passed herself off as black for years
The Koch brothers just took a huge step toward a GOP civil war
Heather Digby Parton
The libertarian billionaires have exerted influence on the GOP for years. But now they're actively taking the reins
“Oh, you Black Death!”: Henry Johnson fought valiantly in WWI and was hailed as a “race-hero” — until he returned home
Richard Slotkin
80 years after his death, Johnson was awarded the Medal of Honor -- but we mustn't forget what America did to him
Texas resident attempts to raise $1 million to combat nonexistent Al Sharpton rally
Joanna Rothkopf
"America needs a doctor and I am him"
Mizzou’s heinously backwards approach to stopping sexual assault: Ban women from frat parties
Jenny Kutner
A Mizzou spokesman says people are too upset about a half-baked idea. The problem is that this was ever dreamt up
Black men are target practice: America’s grotesque history of racist games
Chauncey DeVega
Our country's more perverse forms of leisure and recreation are instructive about the way white supremacy works
How Seinfeld became a bad joke: The threat of a hyper-vigilant left-wing outrage machine has been greatly exaggerated
Arthur Chu
A millionaire tells a dumb joke and nobody laughs — and that's proof we're all oppressed by social activists?
The brilliant magic of “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”: “I try and grab the audience literally by the eyeballs, and I don’t let go”
Sonia Saraiya
Salon talks to the writer, director and stars of BBC America's adaptation of the iconic Susanna Clarke novel
Stingy, white and fat: Here’s what the rest of the world thinks of Americans
Joanna Rothkopf
Watch this 5-minute video of foreign people judging you
Don Lemon weighs in on PC culture: Liberals are “the most easily offended and the least tolerant”
Joanna Rothkopf
"We have to allow people leeway to make mistakes in conversations without calling them racists [and] bigots"
McKinney cop’s bogus “stress” defense: Why the latest excuse for violent force is so vile
Jenny Kutner
Does the brutal cop's excuse expose a gender double standard? Or is it just a defense of violent masculinity?
Colin Quinn on race, comedy and political correctness: “People should stop lying and pretending there’s a racial dialogue”
David Daley
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Quinn tells Salon we need to talk about race -- but we might not be smart enough to pull it off
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