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“The Nutcracker’s” disturbing origin story: Why this was once the world’s creepiest ballet
Ellen O'Connell
From pedophilic godfathers to gruesome seven-headed mice, the first versions of the classic ballet were — different
I got slimed by Rush: The real story of how Stephen Colbert schooled Limbaugh on U.S. history, patriotism
Sophia A. McClennen
Rush attacked my Salon piece, dismissed me as "professorette" -- and got facts so wrong, he made my point stronger
The Year in Uber scandals: A surge-priced cruise through the company’s biggest controversies
Anna Silman
2014 was the year investor Peter Thiel called Uber the “most ethically-challenged company in Silicon Valley"
Nicholas Carr’s dire warning: How technology is “making the world less interesting”
Sarah Gray
Carr released one of 2014's most buzzworthy tech books, "The Glass Cage," which looks at the effects of automation
“I am personally fed up”: How military culture induces military suicide
LT Darryl Diptee
Nearly 2 dozen veterans take their own lives each day. Here's how promising brain science may unlock vital answers
Feminism’s strange 2014: What we want to see happen next year
Andi Zeisler
This was the year the movement seeped into the mainstream. Also: We got lame coinages like "Twitter feminism"
“It may out-Ferguson Ferguson”: Why Milwaukee’s police violence will horrify you
Michael H. Carriere
The sad lesson of Milwaukee is that what happened to Mike Brown is no exception. Here's the terrifying reality
A scary culture change: What new law enforcement rhetoric reveals about America
Elias Isquith
Cops all over the country are demanding "unequivocal support." Here's why an obsession with order is to blame
“I don’t need to prove I was influenced by hip hop”: Iggy Azalea makes Twitter explode again
Erin Keane
The Azealia Banks-Iggy Azalea feud prompts the ritual airing of grievances from hip hop's stars
Conservatives just aren’t funny: Why the right will never have its own Stephen Colbert
Eric Boehlert
Stewart and Colbert are passing the torch to John Oliver and Larry Wilmore. Where is the right's breakout star?
“It’s more common to see a blue hedgehog than a person of color as a protagonist”: Inside the whitewashed world of video games
Arthur Chu
Arthur Chu talks to #INeedDiverseGames' creator about why we need to see ourselves reflected in the games we play
Rolling Stone requests independent review of its University of Virginia rape story
Katie McDonough
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism will conduct a review into the magazine's editorial process
Let’s make Bill O’Reilly’s head explode: We desperately need a war on Christmas lies
Jeffrey Tayler
O'Reilly's blather aside, there's no war on Xmas. There should be: From virgin birth to the date itself, it's a lie
What the New York Times misses about rape: Campus assault isn’t a distraction — it’s part of a larger conversation
Katie McDonough
The problem isn’t that we’re talking too much about college campuses. It's that we aren't talking enough about rape
CIA’s tortured accountability: Why it gets away with pretty much everything
Simon Maloy
NY Times wants torturers to be prosecuted, but normal standards for accountability just don't apply to the CIA
Stephen Colbert’s one mistake: The monstrous Henry Kissinger shouldn’t get to laugh his sins away
Paul Rosenberg
Henry Kissinger is not a cute pop-culture prop. He's got more blood on his hands than perhaps any other American
Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy
Jonathan Peltz
Salon spoke to the former CIA agent about spy fiction, being a mom, and intelligence-gathering in the age of ISIS
Inside the “furries” craze: Why animal suits are the perfect fetish for our times
Paula Young Lee
In a culture of cat memes and role-playing games, it's no shock that some people think their true form isn't human
The propagandists have won: What Fox News and the pornography revolution have in common
Janine R. Wedel
Truthiness has replaced truth. Now that we all have our own facts, we may rue the day we personalized the news
The surprising reason why the animal rights movement is failing
Lindsay Abrams
The way we treat nonhuman animals has never been worse, say activists Lori Marino and Michael Mountain
Why rape is so intrinsic to religion
Valerie Tarico
Stories like the virgin birth lack freely given female consent. It's telling how ready we still are to embrace them
The millennial job paradox: America’s next great generation loves the city — but can’t work there
Henry Grabar
More and more young people are living in America's downtowns. But quality jobs aren't following them.
We’re putting an end to religion: Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and the exploding new American secularism
Phil Zuckerman
Religious right extremism, new atheists & late-night mockery have religion on the run. American secularism's rising
James Carroll on disarming the memory of Jesus: “America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does”
Michael Schulson
The brilliant scholar James Carroll on anti-Semitism, Pope Francis and how liberals can be honest believers
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