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Our coming theocratic hell: Look out, the right’s “religious freedom” push is just the beginning
Jeffrey Tayler
Draw the line from Hobby Lobby to Indiana: Religion has dangerously infected our legal system. It's getting worse
The twisted metamorphosis of Scott Walker’s Wisconsin: How a once-liberal state became a political battlefield
David A. Schultz
Walker ushered in a new era of conservatism in Wisconsin, but there's much more behind the state's transformation
“Game Of Thrones”: HBO throws out George R.R. Martin’s books — and saves the show
Sonia Saraiya
HBO's "Game of Thrones" is rewriting Westerosi history, and the show has never been more spectacular
“The Daily Show’s” Aasif Mandvi wants you to calm down about Jon Stewart: “We don’t need to freak out”
Colin Gorenstein
Aasif Mandvi talked with Esquire about "Daily Show" morale in the wake of some big changes
Rand Paul’s vile abortion deceit: How he’s trying to conceal his odious anti-choice record
Katie McDonough
Paul thinks he can appease his antiabortion base while remaining the candidate of "personal freedom." He's wrong
We can’t take a joke anymore: The inflated dangers of pushing the envelope and crossing the line
Laura Miller
The humble gag has become a ticking bomb in the age of the Internet. Here's why humor has become so fraught
Black death has become a cultural spectacle: Why the Walter Scott tragedy won’t change White America’s mind
Brittney Cooper
He was unarmed. He was shot in the back. He was a person. These facts should all matter — but they won't
Reminder: Sex without consent is still rape
Mary Elizabeth Williams
What a PSA campaign and Elle feature got wrong on sexual assault
America is criminalizing Black teachers: Atlanta’s cheating scandal and the racist underbelly of education reform
Brittney Cooper
Our educational system stacks the deck against Black children -- now we're throwing their teachers in jail
Kansas’ anti-choice horror: Sam Brownback outlaws the safest technique used for second-trimester abortions
Katie McDonough
Brownback is using a draconian abortion ban to distract from his state's real troubles
The “Liberal Media Conspiracy” on steroids: Inside the right’s favorite new talking point
Heather Digby Parton
Rape. Inequality. Police violence: None of these things actually exist — at least if you work for Fox News!
“A police officer felt threatened last weekend”: When the media protects cops who kill
Joanna Rothkopf
Officer Michael Slager has been charged with murder. But how many Michael Slagers go unpunished?
Jeb Bush’s affirmative action atrocity: How his reactionary record on race reveals his true colors
Elias Isquith
Even by the standards of today's GOP, the ex-governor is no moderate. His affirmative action policy proves it
Nora Dunn: “SNL is a traumatic experience. It’s something you have to survive”
Kera Bolonik
Salon exclusive: The comic talks Sweeney sisters, backstage pressures & her love/hate relationship with Jon Lovitz
The Rolling Stone fiasco’s crucial lesson: How its disastrous UVA report exposes our flawed thinking about rape
Katie McDonough
Nuance is not the enemy of justice, and other lessons for non-journalists in Columbia's damning report
Spanking on “Outlander”: The outrage and the turn-on of the “bodice-ripper” tradition
Tracy Clark-Flory
The spanking scene has long been a topic of debate for book fans -- the TV adaptation raises even more eyebrows
A gun lover sees the evils of gun culture: White supremacists, Obama haters, and me
Matt Lallo
When I went to sell the pistol I once loved, I came face to face with a black hole of potential human destruction
“There’s no way to win”: Ellen Pao shakes up Reddit by eliminating salary negotiation in hiring
Katie McDonough
Pao's gender discrimination suit may have been a tipping point, her real legacy could lie in her tenure at Reddit
“We should recognize that there are other imperialisms”: A Marxist dissident explains what the left gets wrong about Russia
Charles R. Davis
Socialist activist Ilya Budraitkis tells Salon that it's time to abandon illusions about Putin's Russia
“It’s pronounced ‘Heb'”: Jeb Bush registers to vote as “hispanic” and Twitter pounces
Joanna Rothkopf
We were born ready for this
“Mad Men” eulogies: Don Draper, American anti-hero
KURT BAUMEISTER
More than any other protagonist from the Golden Age of Television, Don embodies who we are as a nation
“Facebook’s power is to sort what people see and to screen information. That’s basically what Google does, too”
Michael Schulson
Savvy tech critic talks outrage culture, surveillance and the power we give Google & Facebook to moderate our lives
The Scientology paradox of Neil deGrasse Tyson: What his defense of the religion gets wrong
Steve Neumann
Tyson is right that people have the right to believe what they want—but not when it leads to exploitation and abuse
“Outlander” stars on spanking, TV sex and the female gaze: “Women have been starved for quite a while”
Sonia Saraiya
Sam Heughan (Jamie) and Caitriona Balfe (Claire) talk last night's premiere and the sexual politics of time travel
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