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“There aren’t a lot of you out there”: What? Let’s fix our female Asian-American writer blind spot now
Celeste Ng
Who says Asian American women aren't writing fiction? "We are everywhere if you only look!"
The geeks will save us all: Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and the “Big Bang Theory-fication” of everything
Mark Roeder
Sheldon Cooper has inherited the earth. Now we all want to be him, work with him -- or sleep with him
From “Better Call Saul” to Larry Wilmore: The most anticipated pop cultural events of 2015
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sequels! Finales! And the impending domination of James Corden!
New Year’s resolutions are a scam: Your anxiety makes the 1 percent mega-millions
William Davies
Silicon Valley is betting big that wearable technology will keep us in a state of January neurosis all year long
The day I left my son in the car
Kim Brooks
I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life
2014: The year in things that didn’t suck
Mary Elizabeth Williams
From Malala's peace prize to the comet landing, these were the bright spots in a bad year
The year in Jon Stewart: Still the king of political comedy
Sarah Gray
The comedian was in the public eye for more than just "The Daily Show" in 2014, and it was pretty refreshing
Too poor for pop culture
D. Watkins
Where I live in East Baltimore, everything looks like "The Wire" and nobody cares what a "selfie" is
Frederick Douglass’ Irish sojourn: A bracing look at his encounters with poverty and prejudice across the Atlantic
Joan Walsh
Visiting on the eve of the Irish famine, the great leader stayed silent on British oppression. A new book tells why
“No civilization would tolerate what America has done”
David Masciotra
Institutional racism. Rampant income inequality. A broken justice system. America may never be a great society
The year in celebrity shade-throwing: From Martha vs. Gwyneth to Snoop Dogg and Iggy
Anna Silman
Aided and abetted by Twitter and Instagram, it's been a big year for celebrity disses, beefs and brawls
Andrew O’Hehir’s top 10 movies of 2014
Andrew O'Hehir
Don't believe the haters! From a Texas family epic to class war on a train, it was an amazing year at the movies
2014’s sexual assault reckoning: Cosby, Ghomeshi & America’s exhausting holding pattern
Katie McDonough
What can we say this year about sexual violence that couldn’t have been said before? Here's the good and bad of '14
Salon’s What to Read Awards: Top critics choose the best books of 2014
Michele Filgate
To help sort through the year-end flood, we reached out to critics and tallied the totals for this definitive list
Harbaugh, 49ers agree to part ways
JANIE McCAULEY
“Feminism is just owning your s*** and feeling good about your decisions”: Salon talks with the hosts of “Guys We F**ked”
Jenny Kutner
Podcast hosts Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson discuss sex, slut-shaming and what "comedy with a purpose" means
The best episodes of 2014: Top critics on their favorite TV of the year
Sonia Saraiya
Television critics spoke to Salon about the particular episodes that stood out from the rest in 2014
The year in hair: How afros, wigs, and extensions took over pop culture
Sonia Saraiya
If there's one way 2014 introduced texture and variety to the cultural landscape, it's in the realm of hair
“Fear can be the enemy of empathy”: Leslie Jamison on Ferguson, Ebola and America’s painful 2014
Michele Filgate
"Communal panic seemed to trump empathy," says the brilliant critic Leslie Jamison, looking back on long, hard 2014
2014: The year without Rihanna
Sonia Saraiya
This year we saw Beyonce and Taylor Swift wherever we looked. But Rihanna's absence felt like a statement in itself
Authors’ favorite books: The ultimate literary guide to 2014
Michele Filgate
From Roxane Gay on Lindsay Hunter to Knausgaard on Donald Antrim, authors share the books they loved most this year
If the Senate issued a report on America’s drone program
Tom Engelhardt
Our country's civil rights abuses are hardly confined to our treatment of suspected terrorists
2014’s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl'”
Laura Miller
A roundup of the most stylish writing and freshest ideas I read on the Internet in 2014
Bill O’Reilly ruined Christmas: Why his nonsense undermines the holiday I love
Edwin Lyngar
With every predictable rant by the human outrage machines, the holiday loses a little magic for me. Here's why
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