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How Cosby and Ghomeshi-gate snowballed: From a cone of silence to a chorus of women speaking out about sexual assault
Tracy Clark-Flory
Popular definitions of rape and sexual assault -- and the way we talk about them -- have finally started to change
Aimee Mann: “I was under the impression that if I became well known, I would have to back up every line”
Aimee Mann
EXCLUSIVE: One of our great singer-songwriters shares the skills she learned from Dylan, the Beatles and Neil Young
America’s rough lesson about violence: What Cosby, Ferguson and Tamir Rice reveal about our culture
Katie McDonough
Another young black boy was killed over the weekend. The same scripts are already playing out. When will we learn?
The Wrap delivers the worst Cosby Op-Ed yet
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Wrap suggests the comedian has been raped by the media. Its editor's apology isn't much better
Rudy Giuliani’s racial nonsense: How he revealed a disturbing truth about America
Elias Isquith
"America's mayor" implies police swarm black communities in order to save lives. Here's the problem
Ferguson’s dire new chapter: What happens next — and why it matters
RA Monaco
As we await grand jury decision, a state of emergency in Missouri is ready to chill dissent. Here's what's at stake
Rudy Giuliani’s disgusting new low: Ex-mayor says white cops needed to keep black people from killing each other
Luke Brinker
Republican trades barbs with sociologist Michael Eric Dyson over crime and minority representation in police forces
From Stuff White People Like to #NotYourShield: How irony is killing activism
Arthur Chu
We're so used to skewering dopey progressives who try too hard that we forget what it takes to create real change
Our transit future in peril: How idealism is threatening to derail vital projects
Henry Grabar
A long-planned project to build streetcars for a Washington suburb was just nixed. Here's why it matters
“We are starting to break down”: Why so many Americans feel traumatized
Lynn Stuart Parramore
From crippling income inequality to limitless government spying, modern American life has never felt so grim
Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps”
Michael Schulson
Blaming religion for violence, says Karen Armstrong, allows us to dismiss the violence we've exported worldwide
Gene Simmons: “I don’t really care about your culture”
Erin Keane
The KISS frontman on why he thinks immigrants "need to speak English" and men should stay single through their 20s
“He masturbated with my hand”: Why we demand graphic details from our sex abuse scandals
Erin Keane
Both titillating and banal, these specifics become part of a grotesque collective narrative
America’s Bill Cosby awakening: Why the rape allegations are finally sticking
Amanda Marcotte
Hannibal Burress and social media raised awareness, but there's also been a sea change in the way we view sex abuse
“We had to replace the lyrics ‘ugg-a-wugg'”: Meet the “Native American consultant” who worked on NBC’s “Peter Pan”
Erin Keane
Salon talked to Jerod Tate about how NBC smoothed over the musical's un-p.c. edges
Ugh, not another white “Sexiest Man Alive”
Nico Lang
Denzel Washington is still the only person of color to win the honor -- and that was in 1996. What gives, People?
Tom Coburn’s lunacy and the real meaning of the immigration fight
Elias Isquith
The GOPer's prediction of doom may sound silly, but he's speaking to what really motivates the anti-immigrant right
5 reasons Benedict Cumberbatch is the Internet’s “sexiest man alive”
Chris Osterndorf
British accent? Check. Off-beat sex appeal? Check. Leading role in a cult show? Ditto. Sherlock still can't lose
“I am lonely, will anyone speak to me”: Inside the saddest thread on the internet, ten years later
Tori Telfer
In 2004, this thread became a viral sensation. It still exists--and it reveals how much the internet has changed
Watch Don Lemon’s non-apology for controversial Bill Cosby rape comments
Jenny Kutner
"If my question to [Joan Tarshis] struck anyone as insensitive, I am sorry," the CNN host said
“Truly absurd”: New Web series skewers San Francisco’s tech culture
Liam O'Donoghue
"Tech Boom!" parodies the fog of cluelessness engulfing the Bay Area
Bill Cosby’s gross corporate lesson: What NBC’s reaction reveals about rape & money
Katie McDonough
Charges of serial predation didn't seem to bother the comedian's network -- until a whole new set of concerns arose
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