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Dead girls, killer ratings: “Game of Thrones,” “True Detective” and TV’s epidemic of violence against women

Anna March
In a culture besieged with violence against women, it's imperative to think about the shows we choose to watch

“I’ve got a hot hungry mouth” is now high art: Grindr gets the opera treatment

Tracy Clark-Flory
The creator of "Grindr: The Opera" talks to Salon about the technology leading a rapid shift in gay culture

Bill Maher’s bigoted atheism: His arrogant shtick is just as ugly as religious intolerance

Mary Elizabeth Williams
His showdown with Fareed Zakaria shows how far he's fallen

Thomas Jefferson’s torturous afterlife: How Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party try to steal his legacy

Andrew Burstein
The founder of the Democratic Party seems equally beloved by right and left. How did he become a Tea Partyer?

Walt Whitman at the strip club: The legendary poet on love, lust and “midnight orgies”

John Marsh
Whitman understood something that America often tries to suppress: "Sex is the root of it all"

There will be sex in space: Mars, science and “the dictates of biology and human culture”

Chris Impey
Zero-gravity sex presents many challenges. But on Mars, the science of getting it on could be with us

Our naked Ivy League protest: “These are the bodies Yale is exploiting”

Ginny Gilder
Title IX may have been enacted, but change came slowly -- and required us to shed our clothes to make the point

“Westerns are always a magnifying glass”: How movies trace social change involving race, gender, ethnicity, youth & class

Richard Aquila
From "The Great Train Robbery" to "Django Unchained," westerns tell the story of the American century

Rise of the techno-Libertarians: The 5 most socially destructive aspects of Silicon Valley

Richard Eskow
The tech industry is morally and ethically bankrupt, and it's starting to take its toll on ordinary Americans

Would you watch porn for the plot?

Tracy Clark-Flory
The makers of "Marriage 2.0" say all that it takes to fight online porn theft is a great story -- but does it work?

Tori Amos hears “Little Earthquakes” differently now: “Having a teenage daughter forces me to be honest”

Elizabeth Isadora Gold
Her groundbreaking first two albums are being reissued this month -- and she's recording the album for her musical

We gotta get out of this place: The GOP’s war fixation and the lingering curse of Vietnam

Andrew O'Hehir
A haunting film about Vietnam re-enactors touches a cultural nerve: America has never gotten past that trauma

The 1 percent are parasites: Debunking the lies about free enterprise, trickle-down, capitalism and celebrity entrepreneurs

Andrew Sayer
The rich don't generate jobs. Rising tides do not lift all boats. And they probably built that with government help

“There are no lost causes; there are causes waiting to be won”: Katrina vanden Heuvel on 150 years of The Nation

Elias Isquith
Progress demands tenacity and a willingness to be unpopular, liberal institution's publisher and editor tells Salon

Barack Obama’s hip-hop fandom: ‘‘In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I’m going with Young Jeezy’’

Lakeyta M. Bonnette
Many rappers campaigned for Obama, and to the dismay of the right wing, he didn't distance himself from hip-hop

“We go to really dark, awful places”: “Veep” star Matt Walsh on improv, political humor and the early days of the Upright Citizens Brigade

Anna Silman
Long before "Veep," Walsh was one of the founders of a group that forever changed the comedy landscape

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” leans in: The bro-tastic startup culture confronts its woman problem in season 2

Sonia Saraiya
Mike Judge's brogrammersphere can pass the Bechdel Test now — a female senior partner joins the cast

White America’s racial illiteracy: Why our national conversation is poisoned from the start

Dr. Robin DiAngelo
The author of "What Does It Mean to Be White?" examines the ways white people implode when they talk about race

The most “filthy, obscene and objectionable” SNL sketches of all time

Anna Silman
The Atlantic combs through FCC data to see which sketches irked viewers the most

Jon Stewart slams Kansas for insane right-wing agenda — eliminating gun safety and bullying the poor

Colin Gorenstein
"You know what they say about guns: Better sorry than safe"

“Louie” and the walking uterus: When ugly liberal entitlement and surrogate pregnancy collide

Sonia Saraiya
A subplot featuring a lesbian couple and their surrogate turned dark at Louie's school parent potluck

Dove’s dirty, “beautiful” scam: Why the brand’s new viral ad is so patronizing

Mari Brighe
#ChooseBeautiful is a slick piece of marketing that assumes all women suffer from low self-esteem

Kristen Stewart’s post-“Twilight” resurrection: Her indie career is no gimmick, and no surprise

Andrew O'Hehir
K-Stew plays a celebrity wrangler in the delicious "Clouds of Sils Maria" -- but it's more than meta-gag
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