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Leave Stephen King alone: “Misery,” income inequality and the connection between jealousy and creativity
Peter Toohey
Jealousy and creativity are closely intertwined -- and horror master Stephen King is one great example
Thomas Frank: Ann Coulter and David Brooks play a sneaky, unserious class card
Thomas Frank
Post-Ferguson and Staten Island, conservatives are trying to divide with the snob card again. Too bad Dems let them
Meet the man who was (maybe) devoured by an anaconda
Lindsay Abrams
The star of Discovery Channel's controversial new show insists it's all in the name of conservation
Is mocking religion enough? Harris, Dawkins and the future of atheist/secular politics
Richard Cimino, Christopher Smith
Some atheists want to celebrate difference, others want to join the political arena. Time for an Atheist Party?
Mindfulness’ “truthiness” problem: Sam Harris, science and the truth about Buddhist tradition
Ronald Purser, Andrew Cooper
Sam Harris wants practitioners out of religion business. But the supposed science behind it is its own mythology
9 ways Christian zealots cripple America
Amanda Marcotte
With Christmas nearly upon us, an examination of how religious fundamentalism holds the entire country back
Meghan Daum on Rolling Stone, personal essays, Internet culture: “We’re so driven by the idea that one person’s story can guide an entire narrative”
Meghan Daum
The acclaimed essayist explains why we need more reporting, more facts – and perhaps fewer essays and opinions
Rolling Stone’s UVA disaster: Why this story is a brutal setback for women
Erin Keane
It was a missed opportunity to put the "girl who cried rape" story in the statistical improbability pile at last
“Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Eric Garner, Broken Windows and police impunity
Katie McDonough
Renowned scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw tells Salon how our system is designed to protect some people -- and harm others
China’s real-life Walter White
Robert Foyle Hunwick
"Professor Xu," a laid-off plastics worker turn meth mastermind, is fast becoming a local folk hero
APNewsBreak: Arrests made in Balkan war massacre
Jovana Gec, Dusan Stojanovic
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”: The feminist revolution that shaped our world
Andrew O'Hehir
All the anger, joy and turmoil of the '60s-'70s feminist explosion comes alive in a vivid historical documentary
The year in TV: How 2014 remade the workplace comedy
Sonia Saraiya
"Archer," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are hilarious workplace comedies, but they also offer a far sneakier social critique
Stephen Colbert on drugs: 14 classic segments on everything from legal weed to “Breaking Bad”
Sarah Gray
The Colbert Countdown continues
Millions of workers illegally paid less than minimum wage, study suggests
Luke Brinker
Study unveiled by Labor Department exposes violations of wage laws
“It makes me really depressed”: From UVA to Cosby, the rape denial playbook that won’t go away
Katie McDonough
Rolling Stone's piece on sexual violence may have been imperfect -- but here's why its backlash was pre-ordained
Fox News’ racial confusion: What Charles Barkley and Ben Carson could teach Megyn Kelly
Elias Isquith
Fox's Megyn Kelly says something can't be racist if a person of color believes it. Here's the lesson she's missing
Lando Calrissian and Mace Windu are not enough: Why racial diversity in the new “Star Wars” trilogy matters
Dan Marcus
People of color are significantly underrepresented in Hollywood. We need more tentpoles willing to break the mold
New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges
Patrick L. Smith
NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually figured out the truth
Gillian Welch: “People make art to deal with the gnarliest, most painful events”
Gillian Welch
"I was listening to Top 40 radio the other day. It’s music to get dressed to while getting ready to go on a date"
Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story backlash: When narratives are so compelling that we don’t notice unbalanced reporting
Erin Keane
From the UVA exposé to "Serial" to "In Cold Blood," it's hard for us to accept holes in the stories that rivet us
“He would resent the way he is used”: How Martin Luther King would feel about his legacy
Elias Isquith
Stanford historian and King expert Clayborne Carson tells Salon why MLK remains so deeply misunderstood today
Jian Ghomeshi’s quiet accomplice: Why the CBC must be investigated, too
Katie McDonough
Men like Ghomeshi thrive in a culture that serially ignores abuse. Here's why the problem is much bigger than him
The 21 best Reagan protest songs of the ’80s
Kali Holloway
Boss-loving conservatives might want to take a closer listen to the lyrics to "Born in the USA"
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