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“One girl can be silenced, but a nation of girls telling their stories becomes free”
Roya Mahboob
Through the Superhero Project and blogging Afghan girls learn what it's like to be visible to the world
“If I teach them, no one can stop them”: Roya Mahboob is fighting to educate the girls of Afghanistan
Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, Jason Brooks Brown
Threats of death and scandal haven't stopped Roya from trying to change the lives of Afghan girls and women
The plot to destroy the Arctic: George W. Bush, Big Oil and the “Sixth Extinction”
Subhankar Banerjee
Drilling in the Chukchi Sea is a catastrophe waiting to happen. So why does it have the Obama administration's OK?
“The same rhetoric you hear from religious anti-vaxxers today are the arguments made against Cotton Mather”: Peter Manseau
Michael Schulson
Tracing the surprising roots of American religious history with the brilliant scholar Peter Manseau
Yes, black America fears the police. Here’s why
Nikole Hannah-Jones
When gunfire interrupted my Long Island outing with friends, we didn't ring the cops. None of us even considered it
My atheist search for God: We’re debating science and religion all wrong
Nancy Ellen Abrams
I'm not interested in believing in God. My God has to exist, like matter and gravity. Here's what I found
Climate deniers and other pimped-out professional skeptics: The paranoid legacy of Nietzsche’s “problem of science”
Andrew O'Hehir
How a 19th-century thinker's revolutionary insights drive today's climate-denial flacks – and can help beat them
America has reached peak cow: Why it’s time to reconsider the human-bovine partnership
Lindsay Abrams
Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes on the health and environmental impacts of America's 93 million cows
America’s “Ferguson” confusion: Why the problem has been completely misunderstood
Elias Isquith
The racist emails found by the DOJ are awful. But what ails Ferguson reaches well beyond the state of Missouri
“Do what we want in Afghanistan, or we’ll have the Americans drone you”: Our immoral drone war — and how the CIA gets used
Andrew Cockburn
Time and again, our high-tech warriors and spy agencies have gotten played and killed innocents in the Middle East
Joseph Stiglitz taught me how to date
Kate Bahn
As a newly single economist, I'm using market research to help find love on the Web. It's not as bleak as it sounds
“I consider myself a mipster”: How Muslim hipsters are forging their own identity
Justin Slaughter
Urban, mostly professional, 20-something Muslim Americans are embracing Islam, and celebrating diversity (UPDATED)
“Corroded to its core”: Why the results of the Senate torture report are even worse than we thought
Elias Isquith
Georgetown University Law School's David Cole tells Salon how the "torture report" missed the whole ugly picture
“It’s just a shock”: India’s new Gilded Age and the trauma of capitalism
Lynn Stuart Parramore
Novelist-cum-sociologist Rana Dasgupta on the transformative -- and often devastating -- effects of globalization
Let’s all pity Netanyahu and the GOP: Israel, Iran, irrational thinking — and Thomas Friedman’s usual muddled nonsense
Patrick L. Smith
A reactionary leader addressing a reactionary legislature will expose the creeping irrelevance of them both
Forget female Viagra: This new book dismantles stubborn myths about women and sexual desire
Tracy Clark-Flory
Salon talks to Emily Nagoski about "Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life"
Behold, the most outrageous bar mitzvah invite you’ve ever received
Colin Gorenstein
Would you attend this bar mitzvah?
7 Reasons why “30 Rock” fans will love “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
Anna Silman
It has Jenna Maroney (sort of!)
Two geniuses are opening a museum dedicated to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan scandal in a Brooklyn walk-up
Anna Silman
They have raised over $1,000 on kickstarter so far
The case against private education: Why we put our kids in public school
Jessica Gregg
It’s chaotic, academically less rigorous and far less nurturing. It's also giving my children challenges they need
“Buzzard” is the new “Office Space”: An unhinged slacker comedy for the dead-end temp economy
Andrew O'Hehir
A deadbeat scam artist with a Freddy Krueger glove takes on The Man in a ruthless, confrontational indie satire
That controversial Bill Clinton portrait was thrown in storage (but not for the reasons you’d think)
Colin Gorenstein
A representative from the National Gallery of Art explained that the portrait hasn't been on display for a while
10 ways white people are more racist than they realize
Kali Holloway
Progressives like to believe they're enlightened, but they're no less vulnerable to their implicit biases
“No means yes, yes means anal!”: This new film will change how you think about rape culture
Katie McDonough
"The Hunting Ground" reminds us what a culture that rewards aggression and non-consent looks like. It isn't pretty
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