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“We are in this mode of, like, holy f***ing sh*t”: How broth became New York’s latest trendy delicacy
Joanna Rothkopf
Forget coffee. A growing number of culinarily minded Manhattanites have taken up a different kind of hot beverage
“Richard Pryor’s stance was to always admit his imperfections. Bill Cosby took another route”
Sara Scribner
Pryor may have grown up emulating Cosby's rhythms, but personally, politically and stylistically, they diverged
“We seem to be more frightened than we’ve ever been”: Eula Biss on anti-vaxxers, white privilege and our strange new culture of fear
Michael Schulson
The essayist Eula Biss tells Salon how she got to know the anti-vaccine crowd -- and how she learned real empathy
MLK’s radical vision got distorted: Here’s his real legacy on militarism & inequality
Geoff Gilbert
Dr. King is remembered for a sanitized legacy. Here's what he really fought for -- and why it's so relevant today
“This morning my worst nightmare came true”
Emma Eisenberg
Hate speech aimed at a beloved biracial family in this tiny West Virginia town sparks fear -- and a "love fest"
“His dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity”
Cornel West
Cornel West reminds us why the FBI called Martin Luther King Jr. "the most dangerous man in America"
Age of Aquemini: “Spook” magazine, Afrofuturism, and confronting publishing’s white problem
Ian Blair
The literary magazine is bringing a more nuanced, careful, thoughtful, complete vision of blackness into publishing
Atheism’s civil-rights delusion: Why non-believers don’t need their own Selma moment
Steve Neumann
Anti-atheist attitudes are real — but they're nothing compared to the oppression of the Jim Crow south
“Girls” goes to Iowa, humiliation ensues: Why pop culture hates MFA programs
Erin Keane
The HBO show "Girls" is the latest look into the ugly side of writing programs
Colin Meloy: “Out came the dirtiest Decemberists song ever written”
David Daley
EXCLUSIVE: Meloy opens up on the brilliant new Decemberists album, its innocent ode to oral sex, and life at No. 1
The Pope Francis revolution: Inside the catastrophic collapse of the Catholic right
Patricia Miller
Once a major political force with the power to derail presidential campaigns, right-wing Catholicism is in decline
“I have now lived long enough to see that manifest destiny was not necessarily a positive force in our history”
Courtney White
Nothing checked Phoenix’s destiny, and that progress was great for my parents. My perspective was different
Bill Maher is right about religion: The Orwellian ridiculousness of Jesus, and the truth about moral progress
Michael Shermer
"Most religions were pulled into the modern Enlightenment with their fingernails dug into the past"
“I get touched a lot”: Why I decided to pay for cuddling
Melissa Duclos
When I disrobed for a cuddling session, I wasn't sure if I was paying for love, intimacy or something else entirely
“I had a hatred for my cubicle”: Nikil Saval on “The Office,” “Office Space” and the fascinating history of where we work
Sara Scribner
Our cubicles, ourselves: The "Cubed" author explains how our office life has snaked its way into everything we do
“To categorically dismiss the cartoons is to not understand them in context”
Sophia A. McClennen
It didn't take long for critics to come after Charlie Hebdo for being racist and inflammatory. It's not that simple
Why religion unleashes humanity’s most violent impulses
Valerie Tarico
Terrorism can't be blamed on religion alone, but murder and brutality are elemental to almost every major faith
“They killed Kenny!”: “South Park,” “Lost,” “Batman” and our modern sense of heaven
Greg Garrett
Is heaven a place on earth? A bar that plays your favorite song? How pop culture shapes our sense of the afterlife
Boehner’s Taylor Swift meme: How the GOP became the party of the GIF
Anna Silman
Speaker Boehner's Taylor Swift roundup isn't the GOP's first clickbait rodeo
White people are more racist than they realize
Tim Donovan
Whites don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Research suggests most harbor "implicit bias" when it comes to race
“You’re a tyrant to the Constitution!” How gun nuts are threatening politicians
Heather Digby Parton
Armed men are confronting legislators in their offices, demanding more rights. Here's the pols' desperate response
“Gangs of Wasseypur”: India’s explosive crime epic may be the next “Oldboy”
Andrew O'Hehir
A blood-soaked, operatic blend of Tarantino and Bollywood, this crime saga takes Indian cinema to a new level
The Oscars’ white-guy backlash: Why academy voters retreated to their comfort zone
Andrew O'Hehir
There's actually some good news in this year's nominations -- but the academy has swamped it in white backlash
The left’s Charlie Hebdo dilemma: How to feel about the magazine & its cartoons
Branko Marcetic
With issues of free speech, Islamophobia, racism and barbarism all colliding, liberals now face a complex question
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